AN ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON ALGEBRA: TO WHICH ARE ADDED EXPONENTIAL EQUATIONS AND LOGARITHMS. BY BENJAMIN PEIRCE, A. M., PERKINS PROFESSOR OF ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICS IN BOSTON: JAMES MUNROE AND COMPANY. NEW YORK: COLLINS, BROTHER, AND COMPANY. PHILADELPHIA: THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT, AND COMPANY. 1843. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1837, by in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. BOUND JUL 15 1913 CAMBRIDGE: STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY METCALF, KEITH, AND NICHOLS, PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY. SECTION I. Reduction of Fractions. . II. Addition and Subtraction of Fractions. CHAPTER III. EQUATIONS OF THE FIRST DEGREE. SECTION I. Putting Problems into Equations. . II. Reduction and Classification of Equations. unknown quantity. . IV. Equations of the First Degree containing two or |