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...of algebra, it can only be said that it is needful to all advanced work in mathematics.  Its value to the professional man or workman may not be great, excep {{NSRW-cat|Mathematics}} ...

wrote at least thirteen books on mathematics and mathematics, his chief work on this subject being the ...

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year's work aroused his interest in mathematics and no doubt had much to do mathematics in Delaware College. In 1854 he was promoted to its presidency. At ...

...of Hong Kong. Editor: Dr. Matthew Lee. It was republished in Philosophy of Mathematics Education Journal No. 26 (December 2011). ...ply to reality has been the subject of lengthy debate in the philosophy of mathematics. The present paper recounts how the problem has been structured and offers ...

...,'' Teachers College Record, Columbia University; ''Teaching of Elementary Mathematics,'' D. E. Smith; ''Special Method in Elementary Arithmetic,'' C. A {{NSRW-cat|Mathematics}} ...

...tically, then it should be possible to express the essence of this without mathematics. ...

...ity of action (as opposed to action at a distance), or, in the language of mathematics, they are expressed by partial differential equations. Maxwell succeeded in ...entz transformation for the calculation of this change. In the language of mathematics, all systems of equations that express physical laws must be co-variant wit ...

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...meters, but rather from the utter simiplicity of the objects considered by mathematics. Let us see whether we can find a better use for mathematics. Mathematical arguments for God's existence would have the obvious certain ...

...'; Cantor’s ''History of Mathematics''; and Gow’s ''Short History of Greek Mathematics'', refer to the mathematical and physical doctrines of the school. ...s, so all are agreed that to Pythagoras is due the honour of having raised mathematics to the rank of a science. We know that the early Pythagoreans published not ...

mathematics including algebra and trigonometry (See Chapter 21, Navigational Mathematics), and be familiar ...

...ives its problems. Surely the first and oldest problems in every branch of mathematics spring from experience and are suggested by the world of external phenomena But, in the further development of a branch of mathematics, the human mind, encouraged by the success of its solutions, becomes consci ...

...trically demonstrated. By [[Author:Richard Jack|Richard Jack]], teacher of Mathematics. London, 1747, 8vo.{{ref|321}} ...(c. 1620-1684), the first president of the Royal Society, is best known in mathematics for his contributions to continued fractions. ...

...hypotheses, which are to be tested by them with the aid of every help that mathematics can give in examining as to the exactness of their agreement. Finally, it i ...meters who have undertaken to illustrate to readers but little advanced in mathematics some of the truths of physical astronomy. The remainder were from notes of ...

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...|Wright}}, Invariants of quadratic differential forms. Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics etc. No 9, chapter II.</ref> we have to formulate the previous result as fo ...

The ''pseudomath'' is a person who handles mathematics as the monkey handled the razor. The creature tried to shave himself as he The ''graphomath'' is a person who, having no mathematics, attempts to describe a mathematician. Novelists perform in this way: even ...

...ary, is only to be gained by one means—''sound and sufficient knowledge of mathematics, the great instrument of all exact inquiry, without which no man can ever m ...on and to us. Bacon himself was very ignorant of all that had been done by mathematics; and, strange to say, he especially objected to astronomy being handed over ...

...ould still have been very lenient; only seven follies in all science, from mathematics to chemistry! Science might have said to such a judge—as convicts used to s ...head of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a follower of Newton, he knew some mathematics. Erasmus (1466-1536) lived a little too early to attempt it, although his b ...