A Treatise on Algebra, Containing the Most Useful Parts of That Science : Designed for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Illustrated by a Copious Collection of Examples (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Treatise on Algebra, Containing the Most Useful Parts of That Science: Designed for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Illustrated by a Copious Collection of Examples

The mathematical sciences have been considered, since the early periods of their existence, among the noblest Oh jects of human inquiry. Of these, next to arithmetic, geo metry occupies the first place, in regard both to importance and to time. The Grecian philosophers cultivated this branch of knowledge, with an ardor and industry, which manifest their high opinion of its value. In the Ionian and Pythagorean schools, geometry was considered an in dispensable preliminary to the study Of philosophy. When a person, ignorant of geometry, applied for his instructions to the philosopher Xenocrates, he is said to have made this laconic reply: Thou hast not the handles Of philosophy.

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