THE authors of this volume have taken for their aim the axiom that the best preparation for the calculus is a suitable course in co-ordinate geometry. The text is thus divided into two sections: the ...

THE great prominence given in the earlier chapters to curve-tracing, and the fact that the plotting of both algebraic and transcendental curves takes precedence of more purely mathematical treatments ...

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