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THIS is a plainly written and well-arranged book of secondary grade, quite worthy of the crucial test which only practical teachers can apply. Among its praiseworthy features may be mentioned the attention paid to degree, homogeneity, and symmetry; the early introduction of the method of detached coefficients; and the elementary discussion of graphs. The chapter on indices is more satisfactory than is usually the case in works of this kind; on the other hand the chapter on surds is disappointingly conventional, and that on logarithms might certainly be revised with advantage. All logarithmic calculations ought to be printed in the form in which a computer would write them down on paper; explanations, of course, may be added when necessary.
Chambers's Algebra for Schools.
By William Thomson (London: W. and R. Chambers 1898.)
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M., G. Chambers's Algebra for Schools. Nature 57, 388 (1898). https://doi.org/10.1038/057388a0
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