A Short Account of the History of MathematicsMacmillan and Company, limited, 1908 - 522 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα vii
... means of studying in detail the history of mathematics at any specified period should the reader desire to do so . My thanks are due to various friends and corre- spondents who have called my attention to points in the PREFACE vii.
... means of studying in detail the history of mathematics at any specified period should the reader desire to do so . My thanks are due to various friends and corre- spondents who have called my attention to points in the PREFACE vii.
Σελίδα xx
... means of infinite series . Appendix on method of fluxions The invention of fluxions and the infinitesimal calculus . Newton's death , 1727 List of his works Newton's character 324 324 326 327 • 330 330 333 334 335 337 338 339 339 340 ...
... means of infinite series . Appendix on method of fluxions The invention of fluxions and the infinitesimal calculus . Newton's death , 1727 List of his works Newton's character 324 324 326 327 • 330 330 333 334 335 337 338 339 339 340 ...
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... means of represent- ing the result in writing , was all that was required for practical purposes . We are able to speak with more certainty on the arithmetic of the Egyptians . About forty years ago a hieratic papyrus , 1 forming part ...
... means of represent- ing the result in writing , was all that was required for practical purposes . We are able to speak with more certainty on the arithmetic of the Egyptians . About forty years ago a hieratic papyrus , 1 forming part ...
Σελίδα 4
... means that the object is to find a number such that the sum of it and one - seventh of it shall be together equal to 19 ; and he gives as the answer 16 ++ , which is correct . The arithmetical part of the papyrus indicates that he had 4 ...
... means that the object is to find a number such that the sum of it and one - seventh of it shall be together equal to 19 ; and he gives as the answer 16 ++ , which is correct . The arithmetical part of the papyrus indicates that he had 4 ...
Σελίδα 5
... means . a heap ; addition is represented by a pair of legs walking forwards , subtraction by a pair of legs walking backwards or by a flight of arrows ; and equality by the sign . The latter part of the book contains various geometrical ...
... means . a heap ; addition is represented by a pair of legs walking forwards , subtraction by a pair of legs walking backwards or by a flight of arrows ; and equality by the sign . The latter part of the book contains various geometrical ...
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A Short Account of the History of Mathematics Walter William Rouse Ball Περιορισμένη προεπισκόπηση - 1960 |
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Σελίδα 323 - Newton generalized the law of attraction into a statement that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them; and he thence deduced the law of attraction for spherical shells of constant density.
Σελίδα 349 - I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Σελίδα 256 - The squares of the periodic times of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the Sun.
Σελίδα 335 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Σελίδα 10 - Pythagoras' theorem states that the square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.
Σελίδα 334 - had Newton proved this superb theorem — and we know from his own words that he had no expectation of so beautiful a result till it emerged from his mathematical investigation — than all the mechanism of the universe at once lay spread before him.
Σελίδα 326 - I was so persecuted with discussions arising out of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow.
Σελίδα 45 - If from AB there be taken more than its half, and from the remainder more than its half, and so on ; there shall at length remain a magnitude less than C. For C may be multiplied, so as at length to become greater than AB.
Σελίδα 486 - If a straight line meets two straight lines, so as to make the two interior angles on the same side of it taken together less than two right angles...
Σελίδα 41 - Philoponus,t it is asserted that the Athenians in 430 BC when suffering from the plague of eruptive typhoid fever, consulted the oracle at Delos as to how they could stop it. Apollo replied that they must double the size of his altar, which was in the form of a cube. To the unlearned suppliants nothing seemed more easy, and a new altar was constructed...