Author: P. M. BatchelderPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334755453
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Excerpt from The Texas Mathematics Teachers' Bulletin, Vol. 17: February 8, 1933 A word from a layman may be of interest. Some 45 years ago I had my first lesson in algebra from my teacher in Stockholm, Sweden. The introduction was as follows: We are going to take up a difficult subject that is required for graduation. Excepting for those few of you who intend to teach mathematics you will have no use for this subject as long as you live. When I asked my father for assistance, he told me that neither he, his father, nor grandfather ever had had any real knowledge Of mathematics, but that they had all learned it by rote because it was required for a college degree. Father said that no one with our family name had ever been able to really understand mathematics. 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.
