IN the preface it is stated that this book “is designed especially for the use of students of quantitative analysis, many of whom, even after having taken extensive courses in higher mathematics ...

The exercises are good and varied, and there is a chapter containing notices of books for future reading. A Text-book of Arithmetic for Use in Higher Class Schools. By Thomas Muir.

A piece of sheet music from 1946 shows two of the most common tools of arithmetic teaching – the blackboard and the textbook. While these are represented in Smithsonian collections, they are not shown ...

The topics in his book included conversions of currency, problems of gain and loss, and alligation. Although "alligation," or a technique for combining mixed quantities, did not appear in most other ...

BOOK REVIEW: The Man of Numbers: ... For Devlin, NPR’s “Math Guy,” Leonardo of Pisa is much more: he’s the man who brought arithmetic to the West — a celebrity of 13th century Italy.