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A treatise of algebra : with the application of it to a variety of problems in arithmetic, to geometry, trigonometry, and conic sections : with the several methods of solving and constructing equations of the higher kind / by Christian Wolfius ... ; to which is prefix'd, what he refers to in his three preliminary treatises ; translated from the Latin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection QA35 .W64 1739
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolff, Christian, Freiherr von, 1679-1754.
- Standardized Title:
- Elementa matheseos universae. English. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Early works to 1800.
- Mathematics.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 340 pages, 8 unnumbered folded leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch ..., 1739.
- Notes:
- Translation of Elementa analyseos mathematicae, pars I, sectio I, De arithmetica speciosa, and sectio II, De algebra, from the first volume of Wolff's Elementa matheseos universae. "We thought fit to prefix to the author's Algebra, a short compendium of his three treatises on arithmetic, geometry, and trigonometry [from the same volume]"--Translator to the reader.
- Translated by John Hanna.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center QA35 .W64 1739 presented to the Penn Libraries by James Hosmer Penniman. Autograph of William Postlethwaite dated 1764.
- OCLC:
- 7968906
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