The tutor's assistant : being a compendium of arithmetic, and a complete question-book, containing... : to which are added a new and very short method of extracting the cube-root, and a general table for the ready calculating the interest of any sum of money, at any rate per cent. likewise rents, salaries, &c. : the whole being adapted either as a question-book for the use of schools, or as a remembrancer and instructor to such as have some knowledge therein
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Type of record: Book
Title: The tutor's assistant : being a compendium of arithmetic, and a complete question-book, containing... : to which are added a new and very short method of extracting the cube-root, and a general table for the ready calculating the interest of any sum of money, at any rate per cent. likewise rents, salaries, &c. : the whole being adapted either as a question-book for the use of schools, or as a remembrancer and instructor to such as have some knowledge therein
Classmark: Education 375.5109 WAL
Creator(s): Walkingame, Francis (1723-1783)
Additional creator(s): Crosby, T (Editor); Wilson, Spence, and Mawman (Publisher)
Publisher: Printed for Wilson, Spence, and Mawman
Publication city: York
Date(s): Anno 17[99]
Language: English
Size and medium: 192 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates (frontispiece)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/405603
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991009247859705181
Description
"This work having been perused by several eminent mathematicians and accomptants, is recommended as the best compendium hitherto published for the use of schools, or for private persons."
Advertisement on p. [3] dated York, January, 1799.
Signatures: A-Q6.
(from t. p.) I. Arithmetic in whole numbers... -- II. Vulgar fractions ... -- III. Decimals, with the extraction of the square, cube, and biquadrate roots, after a very plain and familiar manner ... -- IV. Duodecimals, or multiplication of feet and inches ... -- V. The mensuration of circles -- VI. A collection of questions set down promiscuously, for the greater trial of the foregoing rules.
Additional description
Signatures of: Francis Mead, John Mead. Illegible notes to t.p. verso
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