Publications
Davies edited the following works:
- A Course of Mathematics for the use of the Royal Military Academy, by Charles Hutton. The eleventh edition by Olinthus Gregory, 1837, 2 vols.; the principal alterations, additions, and improvements in this work were made by Davies.
- Solutions of the Principal Questions in Dr. Hutton's “Course of Mathematics,” 1840.
- A Course of Mathematics, by C. Hutton, continued by O. Gregory; twelfth edition by T. S. Davies, 1841–1843, 2 vols.
- The Mathematician, ed. by T. S. Davies and others, 1845, 1847, and 1850.
Of the above, Solutions of the Principal Questions is the most important work. It is a large octavo of 560 pages, enriched with four thousand solutions on nearly all subjects of mathematical interest and of various degrees of difficulty.
A long catalogue of Davies's writings is printed in the Westminster Review, April 1851, pp. 70–83.
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