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THIS is really an excellent little book, but is rather misnamed in being called an elementary treatise. The study of the theory of equations, although generally expanded far too considerably, is here dealt with in rather the reverse way, the treatment being somewhat too curt. For anyone beginning this subject the book would be found slightly difficult, but for a student who has already had a little experience in this direction, it should prove a very useful vade mecum, for the author has brought together in a few pages just those portions of the subject that are required in actual practice. The three sections treat respectively of determinants, algebraical equations, and the methods by which the real roots of numerical equations are computed, and they are each accompanied by numerous examples.
An Elementary Course in Theory of Equations.
By C. H. Chapman (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1892.)
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An Elementary Course in Theory of Equations. Nature 46, 199 (1892). https://doi.org/10.1038/046199b0
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