A College Algebra (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Henry Burchard Fine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330044754 ISBN 13: 9781330044759

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from A College Algebra

In this book I have endeavored to develop the theory of the algebraic processes in as elementary and informal a manner as possible, but connectedly and rigorously, and to present the processes themselves in the form best adapted to the purposes of practical reckoning.

The book is meant to contain everything relating to algebra that a student is likely to need during his school and college course, and the effort has been made to arrange this varied material in an order which will properly exhibit the logical interdependence of its related parts.

It has seemed to me best to divide the book into two parts, a preliminary part devoted to the number system of algebra and a principal part devoted to algebra itself.

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About the Author:

Henry Burchard Fine was born in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania on September 14, 1858. His faculty adviser was Felix Klein, famous for the Kline Bottle. At Princeton, he was assistant professor (1885-1890), then became professor in 1890, and he also was dean of the faculty from 1903–1912 and dean of the department of science after 1909. He was president of the American Mathematical Society in 1911-12. He wrote: Euclid's Elements (1891) The Number System of Algebra (1891; second edition, 1903). A College Algebra (1904) Coördinate Geometry, with Henry Dallas Thompson (1909) Calculus (1927) His College Algebra was not found easy by beginning students who, when first confronted with it, according to a Princetonian of that era, “decided that no one could understand it but Professor Fine and God.'' When the students of the following year were treated to a revised edition “they agreed that comprehension was probably now limited to Professor Fine alone.'” Fine Hall, the building housing the Mathematics Department at Princeton, was named after him after his death in recognition of his key role in developing the mathematics faculty. Henry Burchard Fine died at age 70 on December 22, 1928, when he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle on Nassau Street in Princeton, New Jersey.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330044754
• ISBN 13: 9781330044759
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 610