An Elementary Treatise on Algebra: Designed as First Lessons in That Science (Classic Reprint)

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Fb&c Limited, Oct 17, 2017 - Mathematics - 246 pages
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All these subjects can be better illustrated by symbols than by num bers for numbers apply to everything, and, of course, can be made to show no particular thing; but not so with symbols, at every step the particular elements are all visible, and the logic and the reason is as distinct in every part of an Operation as is the result. For these reasons, Arithmetic should be studied by symbols, as it is in many parts of Europe many of their books, entitled Arithmetics, are as full of signs and symbols as any Algebra that ever appeared.

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