ARITHMETICAL BOOKS.

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AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE

SECRETARY OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY: FELLOW OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
AND PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS IN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.

"Much surprised, no doubt, would the worthy man have been, had any one told him that two
hundred years after his death, when no man alive would think his ideas on the nature of mathe-
matics worth a look, the absence of better materials would make his list of" arithmeticians "not
only valuable, but absolutely the only authority on several points."-DUBLIN REVIEW, NO. XLI.

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MY DEAR SIR,

Ir never entered into my head till now to adorn the front of any book of mine with an eminent name: and the reason I take to be, that I have hitherto never chanced to write a separate work* upon any subject with which the name of one individual was especially associated in the minds of those who study it. But you are the only Englishman now living who is known, by the proof of publication, to have investigated both the scientific and bibliographical history of Arithmetic and this compliment, be the same worth more or less, is your due, and would have been, though my knowledge of you had been confined to your writings. And it is the more cordially paid from the remembrance of nearly a quarter of a century of personal acquaintance, and of many acts of friendship on your part.

I have rather grown than made this catalogue. It never occurred to me to publish on the subject, till I found, on a casual review of what I had collected, that I could furnish from my own books a more extensive list than Murhard, Scheibel, Heilbronner, or any mathematical bibliographer of my acquaintance, has described from his own inspection. Knowing, from sufficient experience, the general inaccuracy and incompleteness of scientific lists, I therefore determined to do what I could towards the correction of both, by describing as many works as I could manage to see. From

* Had the regulations of the work in which it appeared permitted, it would have been most peculiarly appropriate to have inscribed my treatise on the Calculus of Functions to my friend Mr. Babbage.