Author: [EMERSON (William)]:
Title: The Doctrine of Combinations, Permutations, and Compositions of Quantities, Clearly and succinctly demonstrated.
Description: London: Printed for J. Nourse..., n. d. [1770]. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 205 x 130 mms., pp. [iv], 29 [30 blank], disbound; inner margin of title-page repaired, title-page slightly soiled, and with slight staining to inner margins. Emerson (1701 - 1782) began his association with John Nourse in 1763, and he wrote a number of introductory mathematical texts for him. His topic here is permutations, later denominated factorials; Christian Kramp introduced the notation n! for factorials in 1808.

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