Description When George Shoobridge Carr (1837-1914) wrote his Synopsis of Elementary Results he intended it as an aid to students preparing for degree-level examinations such as the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, for which he provided private tuition.
Notably, in 1903 the work fell into the hands of the Indian prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-192.
He would have been startled to see the two volumes, first published in 1880 and 1886 respectively, reissued more than a century later.
Description When George Shoobridge Carr (1837-1914) wrote his Synopsis of Elementary Results he intended it as an aid to students preparing for degree-level examinations such as the Cambridge Mathematical Tripos, for which he provided private tuition
