Treatise on Arithmetic, Practical and Theoretical
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: August 21, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781402163784
Subjects: treatise,arithmetic,practical,theoretical,Dionysius Lardner xx; History / General
First sentence: (1.) THE early period of life at which we begin to acquire ideas of number, and the influence produced on our minds by becoming familiar with the language of numeration before any notions of the higher classes of number are formed, throw great difficulties in the way of any attempt to retrace the steps by which the art of counting arrived at its present high state of perfection.