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MATHEMATICS. 



1 rat, that no student should be allowed to enter upon the na O f 

 language in mathematical reasoning untU he h^ a^uired Z 

 acquaintance with the nature of assertion, denial, anl dSffi, S 

 can be obtained from previou 3 education as now riven tWatoK 

 done by the study of the first elements of logic thia to be 



Secondly, that no consideration of 



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umveraU complaint that beginners find difficulty and ^c^t'y From 

 what other cause arises the dislike of the indirect demorS on ? 



nore simple: we confine ourselves 

 ) may be, ^ 



, when the ktterbeeam ei toTd^c e uir/ Um f ge metr * a ^ 

 untrained, power of invention aU uuener Setic, that is 



sfiSss^a^-Msre to works on the 



sciences, that it would be impossible t^ mth ,^ at of the other 

 words. The great work of K ^ an y thin g on it in few 



Partly) by LalSde,'H^toire d ^s Matt-' C ? tlnu ? d , ( fr ^ Ma papers 

 1802, is the most MoSS^^j^tfcS?- V Is " Paris ' " 

 desires some detail The WK 1 """P? 3 * 1011 for the reader who 



Mathematischen wJZdJtoffi^^ffi^: '"tteratur der 

 accompaniment in the verification S ?' t 7 ''nS? 11 be found a usef ul 

 'Geschichte der Mathem^aTttmlen^W/^ W rk f KSstuer ' 

 account of individual labours than thS' 7 w "+ m , re precise in its 

 embrace so large a field The works of Bn. , Montu f>> but does not 

 the mathematical part of th P ' Fn of , Bo ? t ' n , a mely, the preface to 

 'Hiatoire des MathCati ^ 2 ^ ^ 6 ' aud 



jteK than ^Predecessor 



work of Montucla/4/che 





Association; are full oi ! ]& *-' ~- ?r ansac . t ' n * * the British 

 'iitirftctcr, SoniG notices of p*"- 1 " 

 fuide the reader to sources 



s moeni prowss 



deserve that title, but contains an immense ouantitv rfinfe' ? n * 

 the ancient part- G J Vow a <n!T '"ty of information on 



Amsterdam, ?6 5 SSvlS ^'' 



Amsterdam, 6 5 dta' 



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_ MATHEMATICS, RECENT TERMINOLOPV Tivr TI 



are seldom three proposHions together one or other of which will not 



renting to PROPORTION we shall treat undefthat wTd ^ 



X*i ^^^ of a t demonstrative system of arithmetic was practically 



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and intei-mutants, and also PfaiRan* wwi. it lncluae commutantt 



