Porter's New System of Mathematics: With the Addition of a Complete Ready Reckoner, for the Use (Classic Reprint)

The science ofnumbers i universally conceded to be an important one to every class in the community. In its cultivation and attainment all are deeply interested. The merchant, the mechanic, the professional man, the manufacturer, agriculturist, and labourer also require, in a greater or less degree, an acquaintance with its principles, on a.correct understanding of which depend their prosperity in the prosecution of their several pursuits. The intricacies that have entered into this branch of necessary knowledge, have detered many from undertaking its successful acquisition. The labour, the time, the study required to achieve a complete mastery over numerical science, interpose formidable objections to the system that has been so long established; which, although it commands respect for its age, yet its numberless defects furnish often almost insurmountable difficulties to its easy and rapid attainment. To reduce the science of numbers to a greater degree of simplicity and facility of acquisition; to introduce into the plan of antiquated theories an easier, a surer, and quicker method of computation, is an important desideratum, one that necessarily interest the actors in every department of business, and recommends itself to the fjsivourable consideration of the community. Many, who have in some measure thrown off the shackles of prejudice, and have endeavoured to become reformers in this interesting field of enterprise, have failed substantially in accomplishing any very important results.
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