Arithmetic Refresher: Improve your working knowledge of arithmetic

709 Pages·1964·51.24 MB·English

by  A. A. Klaf

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BOOKS BY A. ALBERT KLAF
Calculus Refresher for Technical Men
Trigonometry Refresher for Technical Men
Arithmetic Refresher
A. Albert Klaf
Copyright © 1964 by Mollie G. Klaf. All rights reserved.

Arithmetic Refresher was first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 1964
under the title Arithmetic Refresher for Practical Men.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-18856
International Standard Book Number
9780486141930

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FOREWORD
My father wrote this Arithmetic Refresher for Practical Men for the mass
audience of professionals and laymen who are frequently faced with numerical
problems. The book includes the knowledge and practical experience gathered
during a lifetime of searching curiosity. He completed the manuscript a year
before his passing. It is the testament of a career dedicated to public service and
mathematical enlightenment.
I wish to express my deep appreciation to my father’s colleague, Mr. Victor
Feigelman, B.C.E., M.C.E., for solving the sample problems and checking the
manuscript. Thanks are also due to Mr. Hayward Cirker, President of Dover
Publications, Inc., who was my father’s valued friend as well as his publisher.
This book was to have been one of a series that began with his Calculus
Refresher for Technical Men, and progressed to his Trigonometry Refresher for
Technical Men. The succeeding volumes will, of course, remain unwritten. But
the best has been said. Now it must be used by those who seek to experience the
joy of mathematics my father so deeply felt.

FRANKLIN S. KLAF, M.D.
Table of Contents
Dover Books on Mathematics
BOOKS BY A. ALBERT KLAF
Title Page
Copyright Page
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I - ADDITION
CHAPTER II - SUBTRACTION
CHAPTER III - MULTIPLICATION
CHAPTER IV - DIVISION
CHAPTER V - FACTORS—MULTIPLES—CANCELLATION
CHAPTER VI - COMMON FRACTIONS
CHAPTER VII - DECIMAL FRACTIONS
CHAPTER VIII - PERCENTAGE
CHAPTER IX - INTEREST
CHAPTER X - RATIO—PROPORTION—VARIATION
CHAPTER XI - AVERAGES
CHAPTER XII - DENOMINATE NUMBERS
CHAPTER XIII - POWER—ROOTS—RADICALS
CHAPTER XIV - LOGARITHMS
CHAPTER XV - POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE NUMBERS
CHAPTER XVI - PROGRESSIONS—SERIES
CHAPTER XVII - GRAPHS—CHARTS
CHAPTER XVIII - BUSINESS—FINANCE
CHAPTER XIX - VARIOUS TOPICS
CHAPTER XX - INTRODUCTION TO ALGEBRA
APPENDIX A - ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS
APPENDIX B: TABLES
INDEX
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