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... textbook writer and the editor of the popular mathematical periodical that much of the diffusion of mathematical knowledge ... textbooks were almost the only ones in use in American schools , and American teachers were trained to a large ...
... textbook writer and the editor of the popular mathematical periodical that much of the diffusion of mathematical knowledge ... textbooks were almost the only ones in use in American schools , and American teachers were trained to a large ...
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... textbooks on the subject of fluxions , and these rarely included the practical applications which Simpson thought necessary . Very little had been attempted up to that time with infinite series , so that the work was sufficiently ...
... textbooks on the subject of fluxions , and these rarely included the practical applications which Simpson thought necessary . Very little had been attempted up to that time with infinite series , so that the work was sufficiently ...
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... textbooks from the work of Clairaut , for the former mentions Clairaut's treatise in his critical notes , and the latter has produced a textbook more nearly resembling Clairaut's treatise than any other published in England during the ...
... textbooks from the work of Clairaut , for the former mentions Clairaut's treatise in his critical notes , and the latter has produced a textbook more nearly resembling Clairaut's treatise than any other published in England during the ...
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