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Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on Algebra, in Theory and Practice: With Attempts to Simplify Some of the More Difficult Parts of That Science, Particularly the Solution of Cubic Equations and of the Higher Orders It may be here mentioned, that some of these works on algebra are mere copies of others, and in one instance a person of this city, though, to our credit be it spoken, not an American, having repub lished a European work, claimed the merit of it as his own, after having copied verbatim from another, and with so little judgment that the very errors of the press, in the London edition, appear glaringly, and without comment, in the work which this individual (who shall be nameless) claimed as exclusively his own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from An Elementary Treatise on Algebra, Theoretical and Practical: Adapted to the Instruction of Youth in Schools and Colleges As Utility is the great object aimed at in this Publication, I have spared no pains to make a careful selection of materials, from the most approved sources, which may tend to elucidate, in a full and clear manner, the Elements of Algebra, both in theory and practice. Those authors of whose labours I have principally availed myself, are Euler, Clairaut, Lacroix, Gamier, Bezout, La grange, Newton, Simson, Emerson, Wood, Bonnycastle, Bridge and Bland. To Bland's Algebraical Problems, (a work compiled for the use of Students in one of the first Universities in Europe), I am chiefly indebted for the problems in Simple, Pure, and Quadratic Equations. By permission of the learned Dr. Adrain, I have added, as an Appendix, his method of demonstrating algebraically the propositions in the fifth book of Euclid's Elements. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.