A treatise of algebra in three parts ... to which is added, an appendix, concerning the general properties of geometrical lines / by Colin Maclaurin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacLaurin, Colin, 1698-1746.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Algebra--Early works to 1800.

Algebra.

Geometry, Analytic--Early works to 1800.

Geometry, Analytic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([13], 504 p., [12] leaves of plates) : ill.

Edition:

5th ed.

Other Title:

Treatise of algebra

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for C. Nourse, J.F. and C. Rivingtons, T. Longman, G.G.J. and J. Robinsons, T. Cadell, W. Lowndes, and S. Hayes, 1788.

Contents:

1. The fundamental rules and operations

2. The composition and resolution of equations of all degrees; and the different affections of their roots

3. The application of algebra and geometry to each other.

Notes:

The appendix is in Latin, together with an English translation after it.

Reproduction of original from the British Library.

Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

OCLC:

537652572