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A TREATISE

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ALGEBRA.

VOL. I.

ARITHMETICAL ALGEBRA.

BY

GEORGE PEACOCK, D.D. F.R.S. F.G.S. F.R.A.S.

PRESIDENT OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,
LOWNDES'S PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY,

DEAN OF ELY,

AND LATE FELLOW AND TUTOR OF TRINITY COLLEGE.

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CAMBRIDGE:

PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS;

PUBLISHED BY

J. & J. J. DEIGHTON, CAMBRIDGE;

AND BY

G. F. & J. RIVINGTON, AND WHITTAKER & Co. LONDON.

TO THE

REV. JAMES TATE, M. A.

CANON RESIDENTIARY OF ST PAUL'S.

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I GLADLY avail myself of the opportunity of inscribing to you, for a second time, a work of mine on Algebra, as

a sincere tribute of my respect, affection and gratitude.

I trust that I shall not be considered as derogating

from the higher duties which, (in common with you), I owe w to my station in the Church, if I continue to devote some b portion of the leisure at my command, to the completion of an extensive Treatise, embracing the more important departments of Analysis, the execution of which I have long contemplated, and which, in its first volume I now offer to the public, under the auspices of one of my best and dearest friends.

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GEORGE PEACOCK.