A Treatise on Elementary and Higher AlgebraReprint of the original, first published in 1859. |
Contents
DEFINITIONS AND NOTATION | 1 |
Vinculum Parenthesis etc Coefficients | 8 |
SECTION IV | 17 |
Product of a Polynomial and a Monomial | 24 |
Polynomial Products 86 | 54 |
SECTION V | 62 |
Division of Polynomials | 68 |
Horners Synthetic Division | 87 |
Method of finding any Power of a Polynomial | 279 |
Roots of Monomials | 286 |
Roots of Polynomials | 297 |
SECTION XII | 315 |
Multiplication and Division of Surds 821 | 321 |
Method of Freeing any Algebraic Expression from Surds 826 | 330 |
SECTION XII | 337 |
Algebraic and Transcendental Equations 888 | 353 |
Appendix to Multiplication and Division | 120 |
Prime and Composite Numbers | 128 |
Method of finding Prime Numbers 185 | 141 |
Rule for finding the Least Common Multiple | 150 |
Reduced to their Lowest Terms | 157 |
Addition of Fractions | 163 |
Division of Fractions | 169 |
Progressions | 175 |
SECTION IX | 182 |
Inversion | 188 |
Ex æquali in Inverse Proportion | 196 |
Method of finding any Term of a Proportion from the other Terms 203 | 203 |
Terms | 207 |
Abridged ProportionsHarmonical Proportions and Progressions | 215 |
Of the Characters 0 and and their Uses | 225 |
Application of the Principle to Examples 280 | 254 |
SECTION X | 269 |
Particular Methods of Solution illustrated by Examples | 362 |
Appendix to Simple Equations 888 | 388 |
SECTION XIV | 394 |
Questions giving rise to Quadratic Equations | 415 |
SECTION XV | 428 |
To the Reversion of Scries | 435 |
Illustration by Examples | 441 |
SECTION XVI | 454 |
SECTION XVII | 462 |
Solution of Biquadratic Equations | 469 |
Descartes Theorem | 481 |
SECTION XIX | 494 |
New and General Method of Developing the Roots of Equations | 512 |
SOLUTION OF EXPONENTIAL EQUATIONS | 521 |
SECTION XXI | 535 |
SECTION XXII | 544 |
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