MATHEMATICS FOR PRACTICAL MEN;
BEING
A COMMON-PLACE BOOK
OF
PRINCIPLES, THEOREMS, RULES AND TABLES, IN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS
OF
PURE AND MIXED MATHEMATICS,
With their applications; especially to the pursuits of Surveyors, Architects, Mechanics, and Civil Engineers. With numerous engravings.
BY OLINTHUS GREGORY, LL. D., F. R. A. S.
"Only let men awake, and fix their eyes, one while on the nature of things, another while on the application of them to the use and service of mankind."—Lord Bacon.
SECOND EDITION, CORRECTED AND IMPROVED.
Extract of a Letter from Walter R. Johnson, Professor of Mechanics and Natural Philosophy in the Franklin Institute.
"This treatise is intended and admirably calculated to supply the deficiency in the means of mathematical instruction to those who have neither time nor inclination to peruse numerous abstract treatises in the same departments. It has, besides the claims of a good elementary manual, the merit of embracing several of the most interesting and important departments of Mechanics, applying to these the rules and principles embraced in the earlier sections of the work.
"Questions in Statics, Dynamics, Hydrostatics, Hydrodynamics, &c., are treated with a clearness and precision which must increase the powers of the student over his own intellectual resources by the methodical habits which a perusal of such works cannot fail to impart.
"With respect to Engineering, and the various incidents of that important profession, much valuable matter is contained, in this volume; and the results of many laborious series of experiments are presented with conciseness and accuracy."
Letter from Albert B. Dod, Professor of Mathematics in the College of New Jersey.