Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, for ..., Issues 1-3U.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 |
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... geometry , with a canon by which to resolve all questions of the like nature . When I showed it to him he was surprised , said it was right , and owned he knew no other way of resolving it but by algebra , which I was an utter stranger ...
... geometry , with a canon by which to resolve all questions of the like nature . When I showed it to him he was surprised , said it was right , and owned he knew no other way of resolving it but by algebra , which I was an utter stranger ...
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... Geometry , Maclaurin's Algebra , Ward's Mathematics , Keil's Trigonometry . Second year . - Patoun's Navigation , Gregory's Geometry and Fortification ; Simson's Conic Sections ; Maclaurin's and Emerson's Fluxious . Third year ...
... Geometry , Maclaurin's Algebra , Ward's Mathematics , Keil's Trigonometry . Second year . - Patoun's Navigation , Gregory's Geometry and Fortification ; Simson's Conic Sections ; Maclaurin's and Emerson's Fluxious . Third year ...
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... geometry , and spherical trigonometry . Some idea of the extent to which each branch of mathematics was carried may be ob- tained , if we state that in Webber's works 124 pages were given to algebra , while Newcomb's Algebra , for ...
... geometry , and spherical trigonometry . Some idea of the extent to which each branch of mathematics was carried may be ob- tained , if we state that in Webber's works 124 pages were given to algebra , while Newcomb's Algebra , for ...
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... geometry studied was Robert Simson's Euclid . On the ap- plication of trigonometry to mensuration , Ewing's Synopsis was used first - certainly as early as 1798. About 1810 President Caldwell pre- pared a course in geometry , based on ...
... geometry studied was Robert Simson's Euclid . On the ap- plication of trigonometry to mensuration , Ewing's Synopsis was used first - certainly as early as 1798. About 1810 President Caldwell pre- pared a course in geometry , based on ...
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... geometry to spherics and conic sections . This is , according to our information , the first English work of any importance on descriptive geometry , and the first work pub . lished in this country which exhibits to the student that gem ...
... geometry to spherics and conic sections . This is , according to our information , the first English work of any importance on descriptive geometry , and the first work pub . lished in this country which exhibits to the student that gem ...
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