An Unabridged, Digitally Enlarged Printing To Include Questions With Answers And Tables At Book’s End (Natural Sines And Cosines – Natural Tangents And Cotangents – Traverse Table – Logarithms Of Numbers – Logarithms Of The Trigonometric Functions – Meridional Parts) And Examples Of How They Are Used. Containing Complete Chapters On Navigation (Dead Reckoning) And Land Surveying, With Over 90 figures and Index.
Leonard Eugene Dickson (January 22, 1874 – January 17, 1954) was an American mathematician. He was one of the first American researchers in abstract algebra, in particular the theory of finite fields and classical groups, and is also remembered for a three-volume history of number theory, History of the Theory of Numbers.