An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning

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Excerpt from An Essay on the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning: In a Letter From a Gentleman in the City, to His Friend at Oxford Therefore I think I cannot do better Service to Learning, Youth, and the Nation in general, than by Ihewing, That the Mathematics, of all Parts of human Know/age, for the Improvement of the Mind, for their Suh¿reiency to other Arts, and their neh to the Commonwealth, de¿'r've mo¿ to he eneou. Raged. I know a Difcourfe of this Nature will be offenfive to fome, who, while they are ignorant of Mathematics, yet think themfelves Matters of all valuable Learning: But their Difpleafure mufi not deter me from delivering an ufeful Truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.