Mathematics

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Mathematics discusses the fundamentals of four common branches: Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, and Trigonometry. This book contains a number of special features, wherein the text is fully metricated in accordance with the recommended International System of Units (S.I.). The discussion of logarithms and trigonometry is straightforward and involves none of the usual mystery associated with these topics. The last two chapters offer an entertaining initiation into the Theory of Probability, a subject of increasing importance and endless fascination. This text also includes tables, among which are the Decimal Equivalents of Sixty-Fourths; Measures, Money, Simple and Compound Interest; Squares and Square Roots, Cubes and Cube Roots; and Common Logarithms, Sine, Tangent, Secant to 4-figures. The care in presentation and detail of discussion makes this book invaluable as basic groundwork for all mathematical study, possibly as a companion reader to recognized courses or comparable examinations. This book is also enjoyably readable for anyone working independently, whether seeking to recapture forgotten knowledge or studying Mathematics for the first time.