Basu Kalipada. Algebra Made Easy

Fortieth Edition. — Сalcutta: 1933. — 734 p.The present work is intended as a text-book in Alrebra for all classes of students in our schools. It differs, however, m several respects from the existing text-books on the subject at present in use Algebra like every other branch of Mathematics should be studied more as a subject for mental discipline than for anything else An intelligent grasp of principles therefore is to be chiefly aimed at and not the mere learning by rote of a certain number of rules with some readiness in their application. This is the ideal I have ever kept in view m the preparation of this work. The elementary principles of the subject have been dwelt upon at considerable length in the earlier chapters of the book The full import of negative quantities has been explained it is beheved, with some degree of clearness, almost at the very outset, and rules for their addition and subtraction have subsequently been deduced therefrom by a very simple mode of reasoning. The proposition of each article after being clearly demonstrated has been copiously illustrated by a number of select examples, a much larger number of other examples, arranged progressively, has then been added as an exercise for the student The last article of each chapter consists of a number of miscellaneous examples fully worked out as interesting illustrations of special artifices, these again are followed by similar others for exercise.