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 351
ALGEBRA . Chap . 2 , ALGEBRA . 333 If / be a second diameter ^ then — will be negative . … In this equation , it is manifest that the coef ficient of the term x 1 is lels than the square of half the coefficient of xy and , that when the term xy is wanting , the term x l must be ne gative . And , reciprocally , " if an equation is proposed where the coefficient of x l is less than the…
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