Lectures on Fundamental Concepts of Algebra and Geometry
by John Wesley Young
Publisher: Macmillan and co. 1917
Number of pages: 264
Description:
The following lectures contain an elementary account of the logical foundations of algebra and geometry, elementary, in the sense that the technical mathematical equipment presupposed on the part of the reader has been reduced to a minimum. Except in a very few instances, no knowledge of mathematics beyond the most elementary portions of algebra and geometry has been assumed.
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