(1) A First Course in Higher Algebra (2) Problems in Dynamics (with Full Solutions) for the BA Students (Pass and Honours) of the Indian Universities

Abstract

(i) OF these two books, the first is interesting as being the work of two American ladies who are colleagues in the same institution. Each of the authors is a Ph.D., arid for this and other reasons we may surmise that they received a good part of their training in Germany. They are keenly interested in their subject, have studied its history, and are acquainted with some of its most recent aspects. Thus equipped, they have chosen for their main topics rational, irrational, and (ordinary) complex numbers, logarithms, theory of equations, and elementary calculus. Each chapter is headed by an appropriate quotation; there are a number of historical notes, and some references are made to more advanced textbooks. All this is to the good, and the authors, I on the whole, have carried out their programme successfully.

(1) A First Course in Higher Algebra.

By Prof. Helen A. Merrill Dr. Clara E. Smith. Pp. xiv + 247. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.) Price 6s. 6d. net.

(2) Problems in Dynamics (with Full Solutions) for the B.A. Students (Pass and Honours) of the Indian Universities.

By Atma Ram. Pp. 245 + diagrams 16. (Anarkali, Lahore: Atma Ram and Sons.) Price 3s.