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Volume 56 - Issue 395 - February 1972

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Elementary Analysis. By A. Dakin and R. I. Porter. Pp. xii, 378. 87½p. Metricated Edition, 1971. (Bell.)

Linear Algebra and Group Theory. By Vladimir I. Smirnov translated and edited by Richard A. Silverman. Pp. x, 464. £2. 1970. (Dover reprint of the 1961 translation.)

Vector Spaces and Matrices. By R. M. Thrall and L. Tornheim. Pp. xii, 318. £1·75. (Dover reprint of the 1957 volume.)

Mazes and Labyrinths. By W. H. Matthews. Pp. xviii, 254. £1’25. 1970. (Dover reprint of the book dated 1922.)

A Short History of Greek Mathematics. By James Gow. Pp. xii, 325. 1968. (Chelsea.)

Metrication. Edited by F. W. Kellaway. Pp.124. 30p. Reprinted and revised 1970. (Penguin Books.)

Metric Weights and Measures. By. T. H. Ward Hill. Pp. 32. 30p. 1971. (Harrap.)

We’re Going Metric. By John D'Arcy and Graham A. Knox. Pp. 33. 25p. 1971. (Heinemann.)

Modular Arithmetic. By D. E. Mansfield. Pupils’ Book: Pp. 36. Teacher’s Book: Pp. 41. No prices quoted. 1971. (Chatto and Windus.)

Statistics and Probability. By P. A. Caine. Pupils’ book: Pp. 39. 45p. Teachers’ Book: Pp. 10. 35p. 1971. (Chatto and Windus.)

Computation and Theory in Ordinary Differential Equations. By James W. Daniel and Ramon E. Moore. Pp. viii, 172. £3-10. 1970. (Freeman.)

Objective Tests in Mathematics. Four sets (of five test papers each): Arithmetic and Trigonometry; Algebra; Geometry; Statistics. 20 copies of any one set, £1·75; marking templates for each set, £1; blank answer sheets, 75p per 100 copies. (University of London Press.)

Objective Tests and Mathematical Learning. By Noel Wilson. Pp. 130. Paper back $3’15. 1970. (Australian Council for Educational Research.)

Item Banking. By R. Wood and L. S. Skurnik. Pp. x, 184. £2-25.1969. (National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales.)

Group Mathematics Test. By D. Young. Manual: Pp.28. 30p. Test: 100 copies £2. Specimen Set: 35p. 1970. (University of London Press.)

Introduction to Linear Algebra. By Serge Lang. Pp. viii, 180. £1·75. 1970. (Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass.)

The Origins of the Infinitesimal Calculus. By Margaret E. Baron. Pp. viii, 304. £5. 1969. (Pergamon.)

The Development of the Foundations of Mathematical Analysis from Euler to Riemann. By I. Grattan-Guinness Pp. xiii, 186 £4-65. 1970. (MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.)

Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge. Edited by I. Lakatos and A. Musgrave. Pp. viii, 282. £3·50, paperback £1. 1970. (Cambridge University Press.)

Ingenuity in Mathematics. By Ross Honsberger. Pp. vii, 204. 1970. New Mathematical Library, 23. (Random House, New York.)

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