Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The American Philosophical Arithmetic, Designed for the Use of Advanced Classes in Schools and Academies: Containing the Elementary and the More Advanced Principles of the Science of Numbers, and Their Applications to Practical Purposes, Together, With Concise and Analytic Methods of Solution, and Abbreviated Methods of Computation
In common language, quantity or numbers are expressed by the words one, two, three, four, &c.; in arithmetical Operations, by Characters called Figures.
Art. 6. Mathematics is the science that treats Of the properties and relations Of quantity. Its fundamental branches are Arithmetic, Algebra, and Geometry.
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