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The Graphical Treatment of Power-Series

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2017

William P. Milne
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The object of the “Advanced Section” being to study and find out the best methods of teaching Scholarship work, it seems advisable briefly to pass in review the higher algebra syllabus which is at present being taught to pupils in the departments of advanced mathematics in our secondary schools.

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Advanced Section
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 9 , Issue 134 , March 1918 , pp. 198 - 208
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Copyright © Mathematical Association 1918

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page 208 note * This formula should be committed to memory, and quadratic equations always solved by it. Nothing is more amusing than the vitality of the old method of completing the square and extracting the root in every particular oase. No doubt a student should have some training in the last-mentioned process; but his ultimate method should be that of remembering, once for all, the formula in the text.