First Course in the Theory of Equations

The Project Gutenberg EBook of First Course in the Theory of Equations, byLeonard Eugene DicksonThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and withalmost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away orre-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License includedwith this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.orgTitle: First Course in the Theory of EquationsAuthor: Leonard Eugene DicksonRelease Date: August 25, 2009 [EBook #29785]Language: EnglishCharacter set encoding: ISO-8859-1*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THEORY OF EQUATIONS ***Produced by Peter Vachuska, Andrew D. Hwang, Dave Morgan,and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team athttp://www.pgdp.netTranscriber’s NoteThis PDF file is formatted for printing, but may be easily formattedAfor screen viewing. Please see the preamble of the LT X source file forEinstructions.Table of contents entries and running heads have been normalized.Archaic spellings (constructible, parallelopiped) and variants(coordinates/coördinates, two-rowed/2-rowed, etc.) have been retainedfrom the original.Minor typographical corrections, and minor changes to thepresentational style, have been made without comment. Figures mayhave been relocated slightly with respect to the surrounding text.FIRSTCOURSEINTHETHEORYOFEQUATIONSBYLEONARD EUGENE DICKSON, Ph.D.CORRESPONDANT DE L’INSTITUT DE FRANCEPROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGONEWYORKJOHN WILEY & SONS, Inc ...