Higher Algebra

Abstract

ANYONE who imagined from the shortened title of “Higher Algebra,” which appears on the back of this volume, that the work extended to that higher region of algebra to which Salmon's well-known “Lessons” are “introductory,” would be surprised to find that it contains little beyond what may fairly be regarded as “elementary algebra.” Indeed it appears to us that much that is contained in the earlier chapters would have found its place more appropriately in the same authors' “Elementary Algebra for Schools,” using their own device of an asterisk to indicate those articles which might, in the case of the ordinary school-boy, be omitted or reserved for a second reading; and thus the awkwardness of breaking up such subjects as ratio, proportion, and progressions into separate parts, by an arbitrary division into lower and higher, would have been avoided.

Higher Algebra: a Sequel to Elementary Algebra for Schools.

By H. S. Hall S. R. Knight (London: Macmillan, 1887.)