Abstract
MR. FISHER has aimed at writing a short work on algebra for students who have no intention of reading high mathematics. He has done his task well, and the result is a compact and carefully put together little book. The limit he has set himself is to enable a reader to understand all that is required as preliminary to the solution of higher simultaneous equations; hence we have nothing on the Progressions, Notation, Permutations, &c. On a perusal of the work we have been especially struck with the care taken by the author to bring out a book burdened as little as possible with mistakes. For three-fourths of the book he has been assisted by the printers, but in the chapters on surds, indices, and higher equations we have noticed a plentiful crop of typographical errors. Most of these are, however, easily corrected. There is an unfortunate mistake of + for ✗ twice on p. 47; of - for ‰ in Ex. 14, p. 52.
The Book of Algebra.
By A. T. Fisher (London: Stewart's Local Examination Series, 1877.)
Article PDF
Rights and permissions
About this article
Cite this article
The Book of Algebra . Nature 16, 437 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016437b0
Issue Date:
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/016437b0