THE work under review is also Part II. of “A Course of Elementary Mathematics.” Vol. I. comprises those portions of elementary algebra usually to be found in modern text-books up to the chapter on ...

THIS, the latest text-book on elementary algebra, is intended for the higher classes of schools and for the junior students in the Universities. The title of the book “A Treatise on Algebra,” together ...

§2.1 FROM EGYPT TO EGYPT: Diophantus, 15 the father of algebra, in whose honor I have named this chapter, lived in Alexandria, in Roman Egypt, in either the 1st, the 2nd, or the 3rd century CE. I ...