PROF. RONALD ROSS gave in NATURE of October 29, 1908, an article upon “A Method of solving Algebraic Equations.” Without going into the matter itself, or into details concerning it, I beg to state ...

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An algebraic equation contains one or more letters in it. Each letter in the equation is called a variable. A variable can change in value. We guess at different values for each letter until our ...

We have looked at how to solve equations with one unknown value, but what happens when there are two unknown values? An equation with two unknown values will have infinitely many solutions. or \(x=100 ...

I AM much obliged to Herr Sattler for the information which he has been kind enough to give in regard to my article in NATURE of October 29, 1908, and also for sending me the paper by Prof. Heymann ...