Excerpt from An Introduction to Algebra: With Notes and Observations; Designed for the Use of Schools and Places of Public Education; To Which Is Added an Appendix, on the Application of Algebra to Geometry Lagrange, and Lacroix, on the continent, are those who have particularly excelled in this respect and it is to their works that I would refer the young student, as the patterns of elegance and perfection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.