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First Course in the Theory of Equations

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This slender book provides a clear and succinct approach to finding roots of polynomial equations as well as solving systems of linear equations and symmetric equations. Important theorems are proven and exercises strengthen the readers abilities. This is an example of a book whose clarity should set an examaple for current authors. I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to learn the methods of solving equations. Thanks to the publisher for keeping this good book in print!

This book will teach you how to solve algebraic equations. The presentation is characterized by its simplicity and clarity. Since the solution of many equations involves complex numbers, the author naturally starts the book with a chapter on complex numbers. He then proceeds to show how to solve different types of equations in subsequent chapters. He used different methods including analytical, graphical, and numerical methods. There is a whole chapter dedicated to the issue of solving linear systems of simultaneous equations. There are plenty of solved examples. There are also plenty of exercises for the student to practice. In summary, I find this book to be very useful for beginning students in mathematics, science, and engineering. It is a pleasure for me to publish this new, affordable, and high quality edition. This review applies to the $ 12.95 edition.

This is actually not the best work by the author, and his other book, elementary theory of equations is actually better than this.

However, this is one of the best reprints of an old book I have ever seen. For someone to preprint a public domain text, they really have to justify to the consumer why.

This is not some photocopy, and the publisher did a great job of scribbing the reprint into a clean new text.

As far as the content. It is a bit abridged, and that was to make it a very very first course, but compared to his other works it could have been a little better.

Though I highly recommend any Dickson textbooks, he is one of the greats at making the material clear and concise for the student.