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THIS is the second edition of the author's treatise on mathematics designed for engineers. It was originally published in 1926 and the major change in this new issue lies in the addition of several new operations with the slide rule-which the writer calls the “engineer's assistant”-made possible by modern improvements in the design of that useful instrument. The course is intended to bridge the gap between the engineer's handbook and the purely mathematical text-book, the former being too concise and incomplete, while the latter is too specialized. Considerable space is assigned to the treatment of error-absolute and relative-and to practical use of the slide rule.
Mathematics for Engineers
By Raymond W. Dull. Second edition. Pp. xviii + 780. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1941.) 35s.
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B., F. Mathematics for Engineers. Nature 149, 125 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/149125b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/149125b0