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THIS excellent elementary treatise is too well known to require detailed description in these columns, so we need only refer to the changes which have been made by the reviser of the new and enlarged edition. Prof. Loney has given additional chapters on negative quantities, the theory of quadratic equations, logarithms, and miscellaneous theorems, each of which has been inserted in those parts of the book which seemed most appropriate. The chapter on factors has been rewritten, and chapters towards the end have been considerably expanded. By renumbering the paragraphs, and maintaining the old numbers in smaller type, the reviser has facilitated the use of employing both editions together; the newly-added paragraphs contain only one—namely, the new—system of numbers. As examples form a very important part of such an elementary book as this, Prof. Loney has thought fit to more than double the original number, the answers being, as usual, included in the list at the end. Teachers will thus find in this edition a most complete and efficient course, and one especially adapted for boys commencing the subject.
Algebra for Beginners.
By T. Todhunter. New edition, revised and enlarged by S. L. Loney. Pp. xxxvi + 428. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1897.)
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Algebra for Beginners. Nature 56, 28 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/056028a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/056028a0