Karpinski Louis Charles
David Eugene Smith, Ph.D., LL.D. (1860–1944) was an American mathematician and educator. Born in Cortland, New York, he attended Syracuse University, graduating in 1881 (Ph. D., 1887; LL.D., 1905). He practiced law for some years at his place of birth, then became professor in the Michigan State Normal College in 1891, the principal of the State Normal School at Brockport, N. Y. (1898), and professor of mathematics in Teachers College, Columbia University (1901). Smith wrote a large number of publications of various types. He was editor of the Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society; contributed to other mathematical journals; published a series of textbooks; translated Klein's Famous Problems of Geometry, Fink's History of Mathematics, and the Treviso Arithmetic; edited Augustus De Morgan's Budget of Paradoxes (1915); and wrote:
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unified mathematics
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PREFACE'Cms text presents a course in elementary mathematics adapted to the needs o{ students in the freshman year of an ordinary college or technical school course, aud of students in the first year of a junior college. The material of the text includes the essential and vital features of the work commonly covered in the past in separate courses in college algebra, trigonometry, and analytical geometry.The fundamental idea of the development is to emphasize- the fact that mathematics cannot be artificially divided into compartments with separate labels, as we have been in the habit of doing, and to show the essential unity and harmony and interplay between the two great fields into which mathematics may properly be divided; viz., analysis and geometry.A further fundamental feature of this work is the insistence upon illustrations drawn from fields with which the ordinary student lias renl experience. The authors believe that an illustration taken from life adds to the cultural About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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"Excerpt from the book..."Arabic, and so extensive is their use in Europe and the Americas, that itis difficult for us to realize that their general acceptance in thetransactions of commerce is a matter of only the last four centuries, andthat they are unknown to a very large part of the human race to-day. Itseems strange that such a labor-saving device should have struggled fornearly a thousand years after its system of place value was perfectedbefore it replaced such crude notations as the one that the Roman conquerormade substantially universal in Europe. Such, however, is the case, andthere is probably no one who has not at least some slight passing interestin the story of this struggle. To the mathematician and the student ofcivilization the interest is generally a deep one; to the teacher of theelements of knowledge the interest may be less marked, but nevertheless itis real; and even the business man who makes daily use of the curioussymbols by which we express the numbers of commerce, cannot fail to havesome appreciation for the story of the rise and progress of these tools ofhis trade.
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unified mathematics
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PREFACE'Cms text presents a course in elementary mathematics adapted to the needs o{ students in the freshman year of an ordinary college or technical school course, aud of students in the first year of a junior college. The material of the text includes the essential and vital features of the work commonly covered in the past in separate courses in college algebra, trigonometry, and analytical geometry.The fundamental idea of the development is to emphasize- the fact that mathematics cannot be artificially divided into compartments with separate labels, as we have been in the habit of doing, and to show the essential unity and harmony and interplay between the two great fields into which mathematics may properly be divided; viz., analysis and geometry.A further fundamental feature of this work is the insistence upon illustrations drawn from fields with which the ordinary student lias renl experience. The authors believe that an illustration taken from life adds to the cultural About the Publisher Forgotten Books is a publisher of historical writings, such as: Philosophy, Classics, Science, Religion, History, Folklore and Mythology.Forgotten Books' Classic Reprint Series utilizes the latest technology to regenerate facsimiles of historically important writings. Careful attention has been made to accurately preserve the original format of each page whilst digitally enhancing the difficult to read text. Read books online for free at www.forgottenbooks.org
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The Hindu-Arabic Numerals
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"Excerpt from the book..."Arabic, and so extensive is their use in Europe and the Americas, that itis difficult for us to realize that their general acceptance in thetransactions of commerce is a matter of only the last four centuries, andthat they are unknown to a very large part of the human race to-day. Itseems strange that such a labor-saving device should have struggled fornearly a thousand years after its system of place value was perfectedbefore it replaced such crude notations as the one that the Roman conquerormade substantially universal in Europe. Such, however, is the case, andthere is probably no one who has not at least some slight passing interestin the story of this struggle. To the mathematician and the student ofcivilization the interest is generally a deep one; to the teacher of theelements of knowledge the interest may be less marked, but nevertheless itis real; and even the business man who makes daily use of the curioussymbols by which we express the numbers of commerce, cannot fail to havesome appreciation for the story of the rise and progress of these tools ofhis trade.
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