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IN this revision of the author's “First Course,” the sets of examples have been improved by the addition of more difficult examples. Even these should be well within the reach of most serious students. The tendency in England in the past has been to include too many examples of the problem type in the introductory course. Nowadays it is recognised that this is a mistake. Nevertheless, it may be doubted whether this course contains enough to extend the abler readers of it. One reason why many teachers are slow to introduce modern text-books is that the older books, however unsatisfactory they may be in some respects, usually have the merit of containing excellent collections of problems for the better students. This is the more necessary in small schools, where it is not possible to grade the real mathematicians into sets by themselves.
Introduction to the Calculus.
By Prof. William F. Osgood. Pp. xi + 449. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1926.) 12s. net.
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R., A. [Book Reviews]. Nature 121, 859–860 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121859c0
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