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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
Originally published in 1940, this book was aimed at students of
science who had not previously been acquainted with algebra and the
core mathematical principles. 'It is quite wrong that science
students, particularly biology students, should go to their
universities without having been made aware of even the existence
of a side of mathematics whose importance is becoming more and more
apparent'. The book caters for students who wish to develop their
mathematical and reasoning skills, necessary to progress in the
sciences. Chapters are broad in scope, detailed and varied; chapter
titles include, 'The theory of quadratic equations', 'Probability'
and 'Statistics'. A multitude of examples are included throughout
to reinforce learning and answers can be found at the back.
Providing an overview of algebra for school students before
entering undergraduate science, this book will be of significant
value to anyone with an interest in mathematics and the history of
education.
Symmetry is of interest in two ways, artistic and mathematical. It
underlies much scientific thought, playing an important role in
chemistry and atomic physics, and a dominant one in
crystallography. It is important in architectural and engineering
design and particularly in the decorative arts. This book provides
a comprehensive account of symmetry in a form acceptable to readers
without much detailed mathematical knowledge or experience who
nevertheless want to understand the basic principles of the
subject. It will be useful in school and other libraries and as
preliminary reading for students of crystallography. The treatment
is geometrical, which should appeal to art students and to readers
whose mathematical interests are that way inclined.
This book opens up an important field of mathematics at an
elementary level, one in which the element of aesthetic pleasure,
both in the shapes of the curves and in their mathematical
relationships, is dominant. This book describes methods of drawing
plane curves, beginning with conic sections (parabola, ellipse and
hyperbola), and going on to cycloidal curves, spirals, glissettes,
pedal curves, strophoids and so on. In general, 'envelope methods'
are used. There are twenty-five full-page plates and over ninety
smaller diagrams in the text. The book can be used in schools, but
will also be a reference for draughtsmen and mechanical engineers.
As a text on advanced plane geometry it should appeal to pure
mathematicians with an interest in geometry, and to students for
whom Euclidean geometry is not a principal study.
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