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The chief object of the present work is, as its title indicates, to furnish to the student examples by which to illustrate the processes of the Diffe… - Duncan Farquharson Gregory
" "The chief object of the present work is, as its title indicates, to furnish to the student examples by which to illustrate the processes of the Differential and Integral Calculus. In this respect it will be seen to agree with Professor Peacock's Collection of Examples ; and indeed if a second edition of that excellent work had been published I should not have undertaken the task of making this compilation. But as Professor Peacock informed me that he had not leisure to superintend the publication of a second edition of his "Examples" which had been long out of print, I thought that I should do a service to students by preparing a work on a similar plan, but with such modifications as seemed called for by the increased cultivation of Analysis in this University.
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About Duncan Farquharson Gregory
Duncan Farquharson Gregory (13 April 1813 – 23 February 1844), a Scottish mathematician, and professor of medicine in the university of Edinburgh.
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