The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated - Being : Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of Cambridge

The usefulness of Mathematical learning by Isaac Barrow, first Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge and the master of Newton, is an outstanding treatise of the seventeenth century. This book defends mathematics as a serious and academic, but not unentertaining discipline as well as expounding Barrow's views on an extensive range of mathematical teaching from earliest times and in all fields.Originally published in 1734, facsimile reprint of that edition, with a frontispiece woodcut portrait of Barrow. xxxii, 440 pages, plus one page of figures and the index. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration, in black and yellow printed dustwrapper. Very good book in a very good edge worn dustwrapper.