An Elementary Treatise on Algebra, Theoretical and Practical: With Attempts to Simplify Some of the More Difficult Parts of the Science, Particularly the Demonstration of the Binomial Theorem in Its Most General Form, [etc.] |
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| Title | An Elementary Treatise on Algebra, Theoretical and Practical: With Attempts to Simplify Some of the More Difficult Parts of the Science, Particularly the Demonstration of the Binomial Theorem in Its Most General Form, [etc.] |
| Author | John Radford Young |
| Publisher | Hogan and Thompson, 1839 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2007 |
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