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Excerpt from String Figures The making of String Figures is a game common among primitive people. Its study by men of science is a recent development, their researches have, however, already justified its description as a hobby, fascinating to most people and readily mastered. The following pages contain a lecture which I gave last spring at the Royal Institution, London, on these figures and their history, to it I have appended full directio...

Excerpt from Mathematical Recreations and EssaysThe book is divided into two parts, but in both parts I have excluded questions which involve advanced mathematics.The First Part now consists Of ten chapters, in which are described various problems and amusements of the kind usually termed Mathematical Recreations. Several Of the questions mentioned in the first five chapters are Of a somewhat trivial character, and had they been treated in any...

Excerpt from A History of the Study of Mathematics at Cambridge HE following pages contain an account of the development of the study of mathematics in the university of Cambridge, and the means by which proficiency in that study was at various times tested. The general arrangement is as follows. The first seven chapters are devoted to an enume ration of the more eminent Cambridge mathematicians, arranged chronologically. I have in general c...

Excerpt from A Short Account of the History of Mathematics The subject-matter of this book is a historical summary of the development of mathematics, illustrated by the lives and discoveries of those to whom the progress of the science is mainly due. It may serve as an introduction to more elaborate works on the subject, but primarily it is intended to give a short and popular account of those leading facts in the history of mathematics which...

Excerpt from Elementary Algebra: Edited for the Syndics of the University Press I Shall be grateful for notices of misprints, cor rections, or criticisms on the work which may occur to any of my readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technolog...

Excerpt from An Essay on Newton's Principia General recognition of the value of the Principia Reputation of Newton Correspondence of Newton concerning the Principia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, p...

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