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On the Study and Difficulties of Mathematics
One of the twentieth century's great expositors of science offers insights into some of the more neglected aspects of mathematics, particularly among arithmetical notion and its elementary rules, roots and logarithms, and the principles of algebra and geometry.
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304 pages, Hardcover
First published April 16, 2004
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Augustus de Morgan
294 books12 followersBritish mathematician Augustus de Morgan rigorously defined the technique of induction and greatly contributed to the development of symbolic logic.
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April 4, 2024
I respect Sir Augustus De Morgan at highest for all his Mathematical Contributions and I would like you to take my review of him as an Author of this book and a writer in general instead of a review to his astonishing Mathematical discoveries
Problem with book is too much text
I am myself not a person as a fan of a Visually Appealing book but fact is book is not Visually Explainable
I mean, so much work is being done in text it all goes round-in-round, it appears more of a book of literature than Mathematics
I mean, they could think of more visually clarifying ways. Just think about me writing here different degrees polynomials and discussing each of one's terms in-between and that all in TEXT
But, you are judging to quickly...book is from 1830s literally...I can not expect the book to be perfectly amusing for a child studying it after almost 200yrs from a different part of Globe
They may had their way of representation at that time in that location, which is good for them
After all, book is good content-wise. It primarily talks about basics of Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry. Well it will be not good literally first hand experience. So content is quite easy and interesting if you just happen to know things
But Text is gonna be literal problem, you would be praying to see a simple plain written equation
Problem with book is too much text
I am myself not a person as a fan of a Visually Appealing book but fact is book is not Visually Explainable
I mean, so much work is being done in text it all goes round-in-round, it appears more of a book of literature than Mathematics
I mean, they could think of more visually clarifying ways. Just think about me writing here different degrees polynomials and discussing each of one's terms in-between and that all in TEXT
But, you are judging to quickly...book is from 1830s literally...I can not expect the book to be perfectly amusing for a child studying it after almost 200yrs from a different part of Globe
They may had their way of representation at that time in that location, which is good for them
After all, book is good content-wise. It primarily talks about basics of Arithmetic, Algebra and Geometry. Well it will be not good literally first hand experience. So content is quite easy and interesting if you just happen to know things
But Text is gonna be literal problem, you would be praying to see a simple plain written equation
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