Haugh, J.J.

Higher Arithmetic for the Civil Service, Intermediate, and National Teachers’ Examinations. Comprising also Solutions of the most difficult questions set to Canditates for the Lower Division (the late Class II), Excise, Customs and other Civil Service Departments; the Intermidiate Examinations (three grades); the Teachers’ Examinations (since 1872); the Royal University Examinations (since its inception), and the Bank of Ireland Examinations with Numerous Recent Examination Papers.

Second Edition. Dublin, M.H.Gill and Son, 1888. 10.5 cm x 17 cm. VI, 222 pages. Hardcover. Modrn blue cloth with title to front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Occational ink stains, marks and notes throughout the book. Includes the rare Errata Leaf with a manuscript entry (probably by Haugh himself). The Preface to the second edition is dated (in print) by Haugh in Monkstown, Dublin, 1888.

Includes for example the following chapters : Useful Definitions / Prime Numbers / The Tables – The Metric System / Surd Expressions / Chain Rule – The Unit Method / Work done by Agents / Simple Interest – Insurances, &c. / Profit and Loss / Scales of Notation / Duodecimals – Floor of Rooms – Walls, &c. / Miscellaneous Exercises.

• Keywords: Irish History of Mathematics · Mathematics – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 200531AB

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