An Introduction to Algebra

Colburn, Warren

Published by Hilliard Gray & Company, Boston, 1836

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Clean copy with brown spotting at the front and front and back end-pages. Worn leather binding. A good presentation of early nineteenth century algebra by the author who was an established mathematician and educator. .
Warren Colburn Warren, educator, born in Dedham, Massachusetts, 1 March 1793: died in Lowell, Massachusetts, 13 September 1833. He learned the machinist's trade, but early manifested a taste for mathematics, and was graduated at Harvard in 1820. He then opened a select school in Boston, but in April 1823, became superintendent of the Boston manufacturing, company at Waltham, Massachusetts, and in August 1824, of the Merrimack manufacturing company at Lowell. While there he delivered a series of popular lectures, illustrated with the magic lantern, on commerce, natural history, physics, and astronomy, which was continued through many years. He was also superintendent of schools at Lowell, was elected a fellow of the American academy of arts and sciences in 1827, and was for several years an examiner in mathematics at Harvard. His reputation rests largely on his " First Lessons in Intellectual Arithmetic" (Boston, 1821). It had a large circulation and has been translated into most of the languages of Europe and also into several of the eastern tongues. He also published a "Sequel" to his arithmetic (1824: revised ed., 1833), and an "Introduction to Algebra" (1827). Colburn's system of mathematics used practical problems until the pupil had grasped an understanding of the operation. Only then were the abstract numbers and signs introduced to help develop a general principle.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: An Introduction to Algebra
• Publisher: Hilliard Gray & Company, Boston
• Publication Date: 1836
• Condition: Good
• Dimensions: 4.5W x 7.5H x 2D inches 4.5 inches width by 7.5 inches height by 2 inches depth