MACLEAN, John Descriptive Mathematics. [Calcutta]: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. [Second edition, 1946].

MACLEAN, John Descriptive Mathematics. [Calcutta]: Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press. [Second edition, 1946].

xv, 95 pp., with tables to endpapers. Original boards, browned at edges.

First published in 1935. This book sets out definitely to give you freedom and the possibility of healthy adventure. The former is easily exemplified by the treatment of cubics, which opens out a way to deal with any polynomial. The latter is implied not only in the references given to other books, but in the possibility of your setting questions for yourself …. from the Preface.