Barsukov's Algebra
by A. N. Barsukov
Translated by Valery Manokhin, PhD
The Soviet school's standard algebra textbook — ten editions, roughly ten million copies. The first complete, faithful English translation of Barsukov's course, prepared from the original Russian and typeset to modern standards with source-exact section numbering. Twelve chapters, 130 numbered sections: from algebraic expressions and rational numbers through factoring, algebraic fractions, coordinates and graphs, systems of equations, the square root worked digit-by-digit, quadratic equations, and functions and graphs. Includes a full chapter on the slide rule — a subject once central to technical education, almost never found in a modern Western algebra text.
🇺🇸 Grades 6–8 (algebra with slide-rule chapter)
🇬🇧 KS3 (Years 7–9)
🇨🇦 Grades 6–8
Adults and self-learners welcome — great mathematics has no age limit.
Published by Northern Star Academic Press · First faithful English translation from the original Russian edition
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