Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Mathematics
There are many men and women who, from lack of opportunity or some other reason, have grown up in ignorance of the elementary laws of science. They feel themselves continually handicapped by this ignorance. Their critical faculty is eager to submit, alike old established beliefs and revolutionary doctrines, to the test of science. But they lack the necessary knowledge.
Equally serious is the fact that another generation is at this moment growing up to a similar ignorance. The child, between the ages of six and twelve, lives in a wonderland of discovery; he is for ever asking questions, seeking explanations of natural phenomena. It is because many parents have resorted to sentimental evasion in their replies to these questionings, and because children are often allowed either to blunder on natural truths for themselves or to remain unenlightened, that there exists the body of men and women already described. On all sides intelligent people are demanding something more concrete than theory; on all sides they are turning to science for proof and guidance.
To meet this double need - the need of the man who would teach himself the elements of science, and the need of the child who shows himself every day eager to have them taught him - is the aim of the "Thresholds of Science" series.
This series consists of short, simply written monographs by competent authorities, dealing with every branch of science - mathematics, zoology, chemistry and the like. They are well illustrated, and issued at the cheapest possible price.
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