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Elementary Mathematics

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(1) ONE of the reasons which induced a busy scientific man like Sir Oliver Lodge to write a book on easy mathematics is thus given by the author in the preface:—

(1) Easy Mathematics of All Kinds.

Vol. i. Chiefly Arithmetic. By Sir Oliver Lodge. Pp. xv + 436. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1905.) Price 4s. 6d.

(2) Arithmetic for Schools and Colleges.

By John Alison John B. Clark. Pp. viii + 471 + xlvii. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1905.) Price 4s.

(3) Elementary Trigonometry.

By H. S. Hall S. R. Knight. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. xv + 415. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1905.) Price 4s. 6d.

(4) Engineering Mathematics, Simply Explained.

By H. H. Harrison. Pp. 165. (London: Percival Marshall and Co.) Price 1s. 6d. net.

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Elementary Mathematics . Nature 74, viii–ix (1906). https://doi.org/10.1038/074viiia0

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