 | Benjamin Franklin Finkel - 1888 - 518 σελίδες
...terms." On November 22, 1850, he is called to the bar and practices conveyancing. But already in his paper dated August 12, 1850, we meet the significant...gives in the Philosophical Transactions, Vol. 143, pp. 543-5^8. Says Dr. W. Franz Meyer in his exceedingly valuable Bericht fiber die Fortschritte der projectiven... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1888 - 674 σελίδες
...Multiplicity. 1 Perhaps I may without immodesty lay claim to the appellation of the Mathematical Adam, a* I believe that I have given more names (passed into...all the other mathematicians of the age combined. A number whose Manifoldness is n I call an »-fold number. It may also be called an w-ary number, and... | |
 | 1888 - 868 σελίδες
...Multiplicity. 1 Perhaps I may without immodesty lay claim to the appellation of the Mathematical Adam, a* 1 believe that I have given more names (passed into...all the other mathematicians of the age combined. A number whose Manifoldness is n I call an n-fold number. It may also be called an w-ary number, and... | |
 | 1888 - 1078 σελίδες
...manufactured a large number of technical terms in mathematics. He himself speaks on this point as follows : " Perhaps I may, without immodesty, lay claim to the...the other mathematicians of the age combined."! In his writings, Professor Sylvester is often very eloquent. His style is peculiarly flowery, and indicative... | |
 | Wilhelm Ahrens - 1904 - 678 σελίδες
...the Mathematical Adam, as I believe that I have given more names (passed into general circulation) of the creatures of the mathematical reason than all the other mathematicians of the age combined. JJ SYLVESTER. Nature 37, 1887/1888, p. 152. Weierstrass erzählte zu Anfang der sechziger Jahre, er... | |
 | James Joseph Sylvester - 1912 - 812 σελίδες
...and such that when augmented by unity it becomes a power of 2, and double the other component-^. * Perhaps I may without immodesty lay claim to the appellation...all the other mathematicians of the age combined. t It may be well to recall that a perfect number is one which is the half of the sum of its divisors.... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - 1914 - 436 σελίδες
...of Mathematical Adam, as I believe that I have given more names (passed into general circulation) of the creatures of the mathematical reason than all the other mathematicians of the age combined. — SYLVESTER, JJ Nature, Vol. 37 (1887-1888), p. 162. 1043. Tait dubbed Maxwell dp/dt, for according... | |
 | George Abram Miller - 1916 - 328 σελίδες
...of Mathematical Adam, as I believe that I have given more names (passed into general circulation) of the creatures of the mathematical reason than all the other mathematicians of the age combined." * The extent to which new mathematical terms have been introduced has been viewed by some with considerable... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1990 - 452 σελίδες
...Adam, as I believe that I have given more names (passed into general cireulation) of the ereatures of the mathematical reason than all the other mathematicians of the age comhined. J. 1. SYLVESTER 1 . The Nineteeath-Century Background In abstract algebra, as in the case... | |
 | Karen Hunger Parshall - 2006 - 500 σελίδες
..."without immodesty [laid] claim to the appellation of the Mathematical Adam," having given, he believed, "more names (passed into general circulation) to the...the other mathematicians of the age combined."" In light of the fact that almost all of the terminology of invariant theory — like invariant and covariant... | |
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Perhaps I may without immodesty lay claim to the appellation of the Mathematical Adam, as I believe that I have given more names (passed into general circulation) to the creatures of the mathematical reason than all the other mathematicians of the age... 