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THERE really is room for a good text-book on applied mathematics for engineering and physics students at the universities, as well as for such students of mathematics as are content with a pass course in the subject. The ground covered should be that covered by Messrs. Norris and Legge, and the scope should be that of their “Mechanics via the Calculus.” Yet in spite of these coincidences one cannot say that the present book supplies the want. The authors have evidently taken great pains to collect all the pieces of knowledge that the student should acquire; they do large numbers of examples and set still greater numbers for the student to solve. But there is one fatal defect-there is no thread in the treatment of the subject, no soul in its development. The book is a compilation, “useful but unenlightened,” of all the standard bits of book-work, strung together often without rhyme or reason. A book on mechanics without some kind of inspiration is another torture for the teacher and the pupil.
Mechanics via the Calculus.
By P. W. Norris W. Seymour Legge. Pp. xi+340. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1923.) 12s. 6d. net.
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BRODETSKY, S. [Book Reviews]. Nature 113, 600 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113600a0
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