Engineering Mathematics

THIS little book is the first of a series of three, designed to enable an engineering student who works through them to read technical articles intelligibly and without difficulty. It consists entirely of examples dealing with the simplest operations on the use of signs, the first four rules, British weights and measures, the metric system, simple equations, graphs, approximations, square roots and mensuration problems. No explanatory matter is given, nor are there any typical worked examples. This seems rather a pity, for they would have increased the value of the book, especially to private students. Throughout the collection simple practical problems have been introduced. Answers are supplied at the end occupying four pages of rather small print, and some good diagrams are given.Engineering Mathematics.R. W. M.GibbsBy. Part 1. Pp. iv+64+iv. (London, Glasgow and Bombay: Blackie and Son, Ltd., 1923.) 1s. 6d.