My favorite books of 2021 wereThe Story of a New NamebyElena Ferrante(the second book in her excellentMy Brilliant Friendseries),The Authenticity ProjectbyClare PooleyandApples Never FallbyLiane Moriarty(a return to top form after what I thought was a rare miss withNine Perfect Strangers— thou...
The book by Ross is an 1827 translation of a popular German algebra text of 1808 by Meier Hirsch,Footnote35but the examples that go with the text, which Hirsch published in 1811, had been translated earlier by John Wright.Footnote36It is probable that the two translations had been bound tog...