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Professor at the University of Oxford. In 1685 he published a Treatise of Algebra which was the means of making the science of algebra more widely known in England.

Second Pear Course

BY

FLORIAN CAJORI

COLORADO COLLEGE

AND

LETITIA R. ODELL

NORTH SIDE HIGH SCHOOL, DENVER

New York

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1916

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