Mathematics for the Practical Man: Explaining Simply and Quickly All the Elements of Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Logarithms, Coordinate Geometry, Calculus with Answers to Problems

by George Howe

From the PROLOGUE.
CONSIDERING how many fools can calculate, it is surprising that it should be thought either a difficult or a tedious task for any other fool to learn how to master the same tricks.
Some calculus-tricks are quite easy. Some are enormously difficult. The fools who write the textbooks of advanced mathematics -- and they are mostly clever fools -- seldom take the trouble to show you how easy the easy calculations are. On the contrary, they seem to desire to impress you with their tremendous cleverness by going about it in the most difficult way.
Being myself a remarkably stupid fellow, I have had to unteach myself the difficulties, and now beg to present to my fellow fools the parts that are not hard. Master these thoroughly, and the rest will follow. What one fool can do, another can.

Genres: Mathematics

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1918

Reviews

[Jason · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good refresher though this was written before calculators so skip the parts where they expect you to look up log tables.

[Richard Seltzer · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointing. But my expectations were unrealistic.
I wanted a clear and simple review of the math I studied in high school, most of which I've forgotten.