AN INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS With Applications to Science and Agriculture
AFTER some fourteen years of teaching in American colleges
and universities the author finds that the average high school
graduate has not developed in himself a mathematical type of
reasoning. lie therefore hopes that this treatment may in
some measure accomplish this purpose.
The first few chapters are devoted to a thorough review of
high school algebra, for the author is convinced that most
college freshmen need considerable drill on the fundamental
processes of algebra before attempting a very extensive study
of mathematics....
