1913-1914 Academic Catalog

OURSES I MATIIEMATI S. El cth· in the Teachers' ourse. Three hours a week throughout th year. 123. LGEBRA-This course is for beginners. The text is W ntnorth 's El mentary lgebra. Required in the first year of the Preparatory ourse. Five hours a week throughout the year. 124. r.GEBRA-This course is advanced work, beginning with quadratic and completing ·w entworth 's Elementary lgebra. Re– quired in the second year of the Preparatory Course. Five hours a week, fir t semester. 125. GEOMETRY-Plane Geometry, giving work in theorems and original exerci es, is begun. The text-book is Wentworth's. Re– quired in the second year of the Preparatory Course. Five hours a week, econd seme ter. 126. GEOMETRY-Plane Geometry is completed, and olid Geometry taken up and finished. The text-book is Wentworth's. Re– quired in the third year of the Preparatory Course. Five hours a: ,veek throughout the year. 127. ALGEBRA-This is an advanced course in algebra, in which the chief topics are progressions, permutations and combinations, probability, complex numbers, theory of equations, determinants and infinite eries. The text-book is Wentworth's. Elective for all who have not taken the course as a part of the required work in mathe– matics_ Three hours a week, one semester. An additional confer– ence hour may be required. 128, TRIGONOMETRY-Trigonometric functions are studied with respect to their relation to the solution of the triangle, _both plane and spherical. Practical problems are given; also problems in sur– veying, navigation, and astronomy. The text-book is Wentworth's. Elective for all who have not taken the course as a part of the re– quired work in mathematics. Three hours a week, one semester. An additional conference hour may be required. 129. URVEYING.-Much time is given to field work, involving the use of chain, compass, transit, and level. Systematic and ac– curate field notes are required. Elective for all who have not taken the course as a part of the required work in mathematics. Three hours a week, one semester. An additional conference hour may be required. 52