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A Synopsis of Elementary Results in Pure and Applied Mathematics: Volume 1+2

By George Shoobridge Carr

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN
1108050670, 1108050689
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
41 MB (42670102 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics
Pages
1015\1041
Time added
2024-02-07 21:17:48

Description

When George Shoobridge Carr (1837–1914) wrote his Synopsis of Elementary Results he intended it as an aid to students preparing for degree-level examinations such as the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, for which he provided private tuition. He would have been startled to see the two volumes, first published in 1880 and 1886 respectively, reissued more than a century later. Notably, in 1903 the work fell into the hands of the Indian prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887–1920) and greatly influenced his mathematical education. It is the interaction between a methodical teaching aid and the soaring spirit of a self-taught genius which gives this reissue its interest. Volume 1, presented here in its 1886 printing, contains sections on mathematical tables, algebra, the theory of equations, plane trigonometry, spherical trigonometry, elementary geometry and geometrical conics.

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