Miscellanea Curiosa Mathematica: Or, The Literary Correspondence of Some Eminent Mathematicians in Great Britain & Ireland: Containing a Choice Collection of Mathematical Essays & Dissertations on what is Most Valuable & Really Useful, Not Only in Algebra, Trigonometry, the Doctrine of Chances, Astronomy, Chronology, Geometry, Gunnery, Infinite Series, Fluxions, Fluents, Exponentials, the Quadrature of Curves, &c. But Likewise a Curious Collection of 160 New Problems, with Their Solutions, in Most Branches of the Mathematics, Suited to the Capacity of Beginners, as Well as Those who Have Made Some Proficiency in Their Speculations, Volume 1

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