Abstract
THE Americans are an eminently practical people, and in seeking for the path of least resistance towards any desired end they are happily free from the shackles of inherited prejudice and irrational reverence for established tradition. This makes their mathematical textbooks very instructive reading; and although in some cases the desire for simplicity leads to a certain superficiality, this reproach cannot be fairly applied to their mathematical literature as a whole. Every reasonable person must admit that the simplest way of demonstrating a mathematical truth is the best one; and that energy wasted on the rudiments is so much loss of valuable time which might have been spent with profit otherwise.
New Plane and Solid Geometry.
By W. W. Beman D. E. Smith. Pp. x + 382. (Boston, U.S.A.: Ginn and Co., 1899.)
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M., G. New Plane and Solid Geometry. Nature 60, 517–518 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060517b0
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