A COMPANION TO WOOD'S ALGEBRA, CONTAINING SOLUTIONS OF VARIOUS QUESTIONS AND FORMING A KEY TO THE CHIEF DIFFICULTIES FOUND IN THE TO WOOD'S ALGEBRA. THIRD EDITION. BY THOMAS LUND, B.D. LATE FELLOW AND SADLERIAN LECTURER OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE. LONDON: LONGMAN, GREEN, LONGMAN, AND ROBERTS. 181. b. 16. ADVERTISEMENT TO THE THIRD EDITION. SINCE the Second Edition of this work was issued a new Edition of Wood's Algebra has been called for, in which was inserted a collection of all the best questions and problems to be found in the Cambridge Examination Papers of the preceding four years. It became necessary, therefore, to adapt the Companion to this altered state of the Algebra; and, accordingly, a Supplement of 74 pages was printed, and appended to all the Copies then remaining in the hands of the publisher. It was also published separately at a low price, (and may still be had) to complete the copies of the Companion previously purchased. This Supplement is now incorporated into the present Edition; and a further addition is made of the Equations and Algebraical Problems, proposed at the Examinations in St John's College during the last two years, 1858 and 1859, for the Solutions of which the Author is mainly indebted to the Rev. J. R. Lunn, Fellow and Sadlerian Lecturer of that College. This work, it is to be observed, is more than a mere KEY for Schoolmasters and Private Tutors. Its chief use should be, to teach Students the best and neatest modes of working, as well as the application of numerous artifices known to the practised analyst, but not readily occurring to the minds of beginners. With this view every Solution is given at full length, and in the exact form suited to a Cambridge Examination. It is also to be noticed, that each Example, or Problem, is here enunciated at the head of its Solution; so that the book, though a fitting Companion to Wood, is not inseparable from it, but may be used, as a Book of Exercises, with any other treatise on Algebra. MORTON RECTORY, near ALFRETON. T. L. |