Elementary Algebra

"This work on elementary algebra has been written at the request of the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press, and is intended to include those parts of the subject which most Schools and Examination Boards consider as covered by the adjective 'elementary'. The discussion, herein contained, of Permutations and Combinations, the Binomial Theorem, and the Exponential Theorem - subjects which are sometimes included in Elementary Algebra, and sometimes excluded from it - should be regarded as introductory to their treatment in larger textbooks. I have in general followed the order of arrangement and method of presenting the subject which are traditional in England. ... I am indebted to the kindness of the Secretaries of the Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate and of the Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board for permission to use the papers and questions which have been set in the examinations held under their authority. A large number of the examples inserted at the end of each chapter are, except for a few verbal alterations, derived from one or other of these sources."