A Treatise on Algebra (Classic Reprint)

The following work is designed for the use of the higher classes of Schools and the junior students in the Universities. Although the book is complete in itself, in the sense that it begins at the beginning, it is expected that students who use it will have previously read some more elementary work on A lgebra: the simpler parts of the subject are therefore treated somewhat briefly. I have ventured to make one important change from the usual order adopted in English text-books on A lgebra, namely by considering some of the tests of the convergency of infinite series before making any use of such series: this change will, I feel sure, be generally approved. The order in which the different chapters of the book may be read is, however, to a great extent optional. A knowledge of the elementary properties of Determinants is of great and increasing practical utility; and I have therefore introduced a short discussion of their fundamental properties, founded on the Treatises of Dostor and Muir. No pains have been spared to ensure variety and interest in the examples.
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