Abstract
“THIS book is designed as a text in freshman mathematics for students specialising in agriculture, biology, chemistry, and physics in colleges and technical schools” (p. v). Whatever may be the needs of the American student, the book would scarcely be of use in this country. Originality is not expected in a small book designed to be “the entire mathematical equipment of some students” (p. v), but the chapter on statics would surely be much improved if it contained some account of simple machines. The section headed “Mendel's Law” on p. 282 is defective and misleading; witness the following exercises (p. 284): “A farmer buys two different kinds of thoroughbred chickens, but allows them to mix freely. How many different kinds of chickens will he have at the end of (a) the first, (b) the second, (c) the third year of hatching? Ans. (a) 3, (b) 5, (c) 9.”
Mathematics for Collegiate Students of Agriculture and General Science.
Prof.
A. M.
Kenyon
Prof.
W. V.
Lovitt
By. Revised edition. Pp. vii + 337. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1918.) Price 10s. 6d. net
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FISHER, R. Mathematics for Collegiate Students of Agriculture and General Science . Nature 105, 131 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105131a0
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