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History. A Vintage Collector's Edition. Number M492. Original price 95 cents. How could so literate a country as Germany become the scene of book burning and thought control? How could so sensitive a people participate in the organized and pitiless mass slaughter of millions of defenseless and innocent men, women, and children? How could a country with so notable a military tradition stumble into the greatest military catastrophes of modern history?

In this book, Isaac Asimov has reduced the complexities of a branch of mathematics to terms that anyone can understand. In an easy and informal style, he proceeds painlessly from the most basic concepts of algebra to the more refined considerations of quadratic and cubic equations, simultaneous equations, and those involving imaginary numbers. Also included are illustrations of the way algebra can be used in everyday life, as well as the roles it played in the discoveries of Galileo and Newton. --- excerpt from book's back cover