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On the Teaching of Indices and Surds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

R. W. Genese
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The object of the present paper is to invite discussion as to the safest lines upon which to proceed in the teaching of Indices and Surds. And firstly, I am inclined to think that the beginner would get a firmer grasp of the theory of fractional indices (with which alone I am concerned) if a short course of surds, or, at least, of surd-forms, were made to precede; the simple theorem

would suffice, as shown later: and it seems more intelligible than its rival

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Research Article
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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 1 , Issue 21 , May 1900 , pp. 339 - 342
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1900

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