A Scrap-Book of Elementary Mathematics
by William F. White
Publisher: The Open Court Publishing Company 1908
ISBN/ASIN: 1429700106
Number of pages: 234
Description:
The tendency to select the problems and illustrations of mathematics mostly from the scientific, commercial and industrial activities of today, is one with which the writer is in accord. Moreover, amusement is one of the fields of applied mathematics.
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