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A Treatise of Algebra in three Parts : I. the fundamental Rules and Operations : II. the Composition and Resolution of Equations of all Degrees and the different Affections of their Roots : III. the Application of Algebra and Geometry to each other ; The general Properties of Geometrical Lines (1779)

MacLaurin, Colin · printed for Nourse... · leaf 331

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