A source book in mathematics

1929·27.4 MB·English

by  Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944

SOURCE BOOKS IN THE HISTORY
OF THE SCIENCES
Gregory D. Walcott •General Editor
A SOURCE BOOK IN MATHEMATICS
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SOURCE BOOKS IN THE
HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES
Gregory D. Walcott General Editor
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A SOURCE BOOK IN ASTRONOMY
Harlow Shapley •Dnector, Harvard Observatory
Harvard University
AND
Helen E. Howarth •Harvard Observatory
A SOURCE BOOK IN MATHEMATICS
David Eugene Smith • Columbia University
OTHER volumes TO BE
announced later
Endorted bj the American PhiloiophicjlAisocuition,thtAm^rxan
Auoc\AtumforAcAdvancementofScience,andtheHtsicnyofScience
Society.AltobytheAmeucanAnihropologicalAssociation,th«Maihc
matical Assoaatum of America, the American Miiihan<jl:c4
SocietyandtheAmericanAstronomicalSocietyintheirrespectivefields.
A
SOURCE BOOK
in
MATHEMATICS
By
DAVID EUGENE SMITH, ph.d., ll.d.
Professor Emeritus m Teachers College, Columbia
University, ?-{ew Tor\City
FIRST EDITION
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1929
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