Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Seventeenth Annual Report of the President of Harvard University, to the Overseers, on the State of the Institution: For the Academical Year 1841-42
During the past year, instruction in this department was conducted by Benjamin Peirce, A. M Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics.
Instruction in this department commenced in the Freshman year, with Recitations from Peirce's Geometry, which was completed in the First Term. Peirce's Algebra, and Peirce's Plane Trigonometry and Spherical Trigonometry, occupied the rest of the year.
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