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Byrne, Oliver Byron, Augusta Ada, Lady Lovelace
B 318
Byrne, Oliver (1810–1880)
The young dual arithmetician: Or, dual arithmetic. A
new art, designed for elementary instruction and the
use of schools. To which are added, tables of ascending
and descending dual logarithms, dual numbers and
corresponding natural numbers.
Year: 1871
Place: London
Publisher: E. & F. N. Spon
Edition: 2nd
Language: English
Binding: original cloth boards; silt stamped front cover
Pagination: pp. [iii–xii], 144, [2], 32, [2], [33–58]
Collation: π 5 B–H 12 I 6 c 12
Size: 185x106 mm
Reference: Hend BTM, #209, p. 187
See entry for Byrne, Dual arithmetic, 1863. In the
preface, Byrne immodestly describes his system of dual
arithmetic as a branch of greater importance has not
been contributed to mathematical science. This work, a
promotional item for dual arithmetic, would have been
most difficult for anyone to use, let alone the young
students of different capacities to which this book was
addressed. A table of ascending and descending dual
logarithms is printed at the end of the work—ascending
logarithms in black and descending ones in red.
Illustrations available:
Title page
B 318
Byron, Augusta Ada, Lady Lovelace (1815–1852),
translator
See Menabrea, Luigi Federico; Sketch of the
Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage,
Esq.… with notes by the translator. Extract from
the ‘Scientific Memoirs’ vol. iii
From Boissiere; L’ art d’arythmetique, 1554
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