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THIS book is “an elementary treatise on algebra intended for use in Indian high schools.” “Each rule and each process are followed by a well-graduated and sufficiently large collection of examples.” These quotations from the preface serve to characterise the book. It is intended for beginners, and includes the theory of indices, and proportion, but not quadratic equations. The book is too full of rules and processes, and the student is in danger of losing his grasp of tne fundamental ideas through the bewildering number of special methods, and may be led to think that he must remember the many rules and artifices which can only be acquired by practice and experience. Thus, for instance, under the heading of the resolution of x2 + ax + b into factors, we find a first method, a second method, followed by two important hints and forty-five examples; then ax2 + bx + c is treated on the same lines and at the same length.
Algebra.
Part i. By Kaliprasanna Chottoraj. Pp. vi + 482. (Calcutta: The City Book Society, 1903.)
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H., R. Algebra . Nature 67, 608 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067608a0
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