AN

ELEMENTARY TREATISE

ON

ALGEBRA :

TO WHICH ARE ADDED

EXPONENTIAL EQUATIONS

AND

LOGARITHMS.

BY BENJAMIN PEIRCE, A. M.,

PERKINS PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICS IN
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

NEW EDITION.

BOSTON:

WILLIAM H. DENNET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by

WILLIAM H. DENNET,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

SECTION I. Reduction of Fractions. .

II. Addition and Subtraction of Fractions.

III. Multiplication and Division of Fractions.

IV. Proportions.

CHAPTER III.

EQUATIONS OF THE FIRST DEGREE.

SECTION I. Putting Problems into Equations..

II. Reduction and Classification of Equations.

III. Solution of Equations of the First Degree, with one

unknown quantity.

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IV. Equations of the First Degree containing two or

more unknown quantities.

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