Mathematics for Students of Agriculture (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Mathematics for Students of Agriculture This book presents a year's work in mathematics for students taking agricultural courses in secondary, vocational, and technical schools and in colleges and universities. By omitting the more elementary' or the advanced topics, as may seem desirable, or by properly selecting the exercises to be solved, the book will serve quite naturally for a half-year's work. The modern agriculturalist must devote a larger and larger part of his time to mental activity along scientific lines. To do this rationally he must have better methods for, and more practice in, estimating, computing, and comparing the materials and processes with which he works. The object of the present text is to furnish a better basis for effecting these ends. The text has been used in the form of mimeographed notes for several years in the classroom, and has been modified from time to time in the light of experience and of new conditions. It was soon found that it was not safe to assume too much preparation on the part of students taking the course. Consequently, material is presented in the text for study and practice in basic elementary processes in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry. Some study of this material will suffice for those students who have not had the proper preparation for the course as well as for those students who wish to review elementary facts and principles. The unifying element in the book is the attempt to make the principles of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and graphic representation function with the student's interest and point of view'. It is hoped that in this way he may find a natural tendency to use this most basic science in the solution at least of those problems which arise in his own sphere of activity. We may, therefore, expect the student to acquire in this way not less of mathematical value and content but more of it. 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.