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Curve Tracing and Curve Analysis

Nature volume 83, page 461 (1910)Cite this article

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THE review of a book on practical curve tracing in NATURE of June 9 is tantalising to one who is not in the least interested in drawing the graph of an equation, but who is frequently plotting curves from experiment, and who would like to find formulæ, not only to fit them, but to explain them. I look through most of the reviews of mathematical books in NATURE in the hope of discovering one that deals with the practical analysis of curves, and I am continually disappointed.

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TROTTER, A. Curve Tracing and Curve Analysis. Nature 83, 461 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/083461a0

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