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NEARLY five years have passed since we noticed a small pamphlet by the authors of (ii.), together with treatises on the calculus of Messrs. Buckingham (Chicago) and Clark (Cincinnati), and we then remarked upon the growing interest taken in mathematics by American students. A further outcome of the same interest is the two works now before us. As it is not to be expected that such works will take the place in our colleges of the textbooks already in use amongst English mathematicians, seeing that, like our own books, these are greatly indebted to the classic works by Duhanel and Bertrand, we shall not dwell at any length upon their merits or demerits. Each work under notice is well done to the extent to which it goes, and will furnish the young student with a good introduction to the admittedly difficult subject of which it treats.
i. Elements of the Differential Calculus, with Examples and Applications: a Text-book.
By W. E. Byerly (Boston: Ginn and Heath, 1879.)
ii. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus, founded on the Method of Rates or Fluxions.
By John Minot Rice W. Woolsey Johnson. Revised Edition. (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1879.)
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i. Elements of the Differential Calculus, with Examples and Applications: a Text-book. ii. An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus, founded on the Method of Rates or Fluxions. Nature 22, 509 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/022509a0
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