The Scholar's Algebra: An Introductory Work on Algebra (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Scholar's Algebra: An Introductory Work on Algebra

I have remarked in the Universities a growing dis position to compel the student of the Higher Mathematics to interpret his results numerically. There can be no better guarantee that he understands what he is about.

Besides providing a language adapted for general reasoning about numbers, and giving additional powers to the computer, Algebra has a very suggestive side, raising problems in regard to the extension of meaning of the negative sign and of symbols generally, which are interesting in themselves, and have important analogies in language and other fields of thought. On these sub jects I have been obliged to limit myself to a few hints.

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