Excerpt from Questions in Mathematics

This book is an outcome of one recently published, entitled "The Culmination of the Science of Logic."

The striking analogy between the necessary forms of the process of reasoning and the simplest forms of geometry, exhibited by the author in that book, led him to the reflection that perhaps the processes of geometry would have been greatly simplified, and its operations therefore more easily performed, if the regular triangle and tetrahedron, instead of the square and cube, had been adopted as units of measure of surface and solidity.

The determination of this question, as the author was well aware, required a better acquaintance with such operations and processes than he possessed, he being but a tyro, in the secondary sense of that word, in mathematical science. A tyro may, however, ask questions, but to ask a question without at the same 'time giving, ' some reasons for the asking, would be to obtain for it but slight and insufficient attention.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.