A Short Account of the History of MathematicsMacmillan and Company, limited, 1908 - 522 σελίδες |
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... theory of numbers His use in geometry of analysis and of infinitesimals Foundation of the theory of probabilities , 1654 HUYGENS , 1629-1695 · The Horologium Oscillatorium , 1673 The undulatory theory of light Other Mathematicians of ...
... theory of numbers His use in geometry of analysis and of infinitesimals Foundation of the theory of probabilities , 1654 HUYGENS , 1629-1695 · The Horologium Oscillatorium , 1673 The undulatory theory of light Other Mathematicians of ...
Σελίδα xxiii
... Theory of Numbers 455 Eisenstein , 1823-1852 455 Henry Smith , 1826-1883 456 Kummer , 1810-1893 Notes on other writers on the Theory of Numbers . 458 459 Development of the Theory of Functions of Multiple Periodicity 461 • ABEL , 1802 ...
... Theory of Numbers 455 Eisenstein , 1823-1852 455 Henry Smith , 1826-1883 456 Kummer , 1810-1893 Notes on other writers on the Theory of Numbers . 458 459 Development of the Theory of Functions of Multiple Periodicity 461 • ABEL , 1802 ...
Σελίδα 46
... theory had continually to introduce fresh spheres to make the theory agree with the facts . The work of Aratus on astronomy , which was written about 300 B.C. and is still extant , is founded on that of Eudoxus . Among Plato's Plato and ...
... theory had continually to introduce fresh spheres to make the theory agree with the facts . The work of Aratus on astronomy , which was written about 300 B.C. and is still extant , is founded on that of Eudoxus . Among Plato's Plato and ...
Σελίδα 57
... theory of proportion ( of any magnitudes ) is discussed in book v ; and books XI and XII treat of solid geometry . On the hypothesis that the Elements are the first draft of Euclid's proposed work , it is possible that book XIII is a ...
... theory of proportion ( of any magnitudes ) is discussed in book v ; and books XI and XII treat of solid geometry . On the hypothesis that the Elements are the first draft of Euclid's proposed work , it is possible that book XIII is a ...
Σελίδα 58
... theory of proportion on a scientific basis ; and it was used by Euclid as the foundation on which he built the theory of numbers . The theory of proportion given in this book is believed to be due to Eudoxus . The treatment of the same ...
... theory of proportion on a scientific basis ; and it was used by Euclid as the foundation on which he built the theory of numbers . The theory of proportion given in this book is believed to be due to Eudoxus . The treatment of the same ...
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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...