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MR. FROST'S work is an elementary one, inasmuch as no advanced acquaintance with the differential and integral calculus is required; nor do his methods turn upon the higher algebra, nor upon the science of projections. Indeed he is careful to restrict himself for the most part to fairly elementary processes. It is not a complete treatise, as he does not touch upon roulettes or upon curves, given by intrinsic equations. These latter curves have been, as is well known, discussed and fully illustrated in the late Dr. Whewell's two memoirs in the Cambridge Philosophical Transactions (vols. viii. and ix.) We miss, too, all account of curves of historical interest. Occasional notices of these have been given by different writers, but we should like a sketch of them drawn up by some competent hand, with an account of their origin and applications.
An Elementary Treatise on Curve Tracing.
By Percival Frost. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1872.)
On the Transcendental Curve whose Equation is—Sin Y sin my = a sin x sin nx + b.
By H. A. Newton A. W. Phillips. (From the Transactions of the Connecticut Academy, vol. iii., 1875.)
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An Elementary Treatise on Curve Tracing. On the Transcendental Curve whose Equation is—Sin Y sin my = a sin x sin nx + b. Nature 13, 483 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/013483a0
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