Young mathematician's guide being a plain and easy introduction to the mathematicks. In five parts. Viz. I. Arithmetick, Vulgar and Decimal, with all the useful Rules; and a general Method of extracting the Roots of all single Powers. II. Algebra, or Arithmetick in Species; wherein the Method of raising and resolving Equations is rendered easy; and illustrated with Variety of Examples, and numerical Questions. Also the whole Business of Interest and Annuities, &c. performed by the Pen. III. The Elements of Geometry contracted, and analytically demonstrated; with a new and easy Method of finding the Circle's Periphery and Area to any assigned Exactness, by one Equation only: Also a new Way of making Signs and Tangents. IV. Conick Sections, wherein the chief Properties, &c. of the Ellipsis, Parabola, and Hyperbola, are clearly demonstrated. V. The Arithmetick of Infinites explained and rendered Easy; with its Application to superficial and solid Geometry. With an appendix of practical gauging. By John Ward

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Ward, John
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dublin printed for Thomas Ewing, in Castle-street, and William Smith, in Dame-Street, Booksellers 1769, 1769
Edition:	The eleventh edition, carefully corrected. To which is added, a supplement
Subjects:	Mathematics / Early Works To 1800
Online Access:	http://nl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/id/1060500200?orig...
Collection:	Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa