Excerpt from Elementary Mathematical Analysis: A Text Book for First Year College Students This book is not intended to be a text on Practical Mathe maties in the sense of making use Of scientific material and of fundamental notions not already in the possession of the student, or in the sense of making the principles Of mathematics secondary to its technique. On the contrary, it has been the aim to give the fundamental truths of elementary analysis as much prominence as seems possible in a working course for freshmen. The emphasis Of the book is intended to be upon the notion of functionality. Illustrations from science are freely used to make this concept prominent. The student should learn early in his course that an important purpose of mathematics is to express and to interpret the laws of actual phenomena and not primarily to secure here and there certain computed results. Mathematics might well be defined as the science that takes the broadest View of all of the sciences - an epitome of quantitative knowledge. The introduction of the student to a broad view Of mathematics can hardly begin too early. The ideas explained above are developed In accordance with a two-fold plan, as follows: First, the plan is to group the material Of elementary analysis about the consideration Of the three fundamental functions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.