The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - 400 σελίδες |
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... became necessary for the teacher to dictate the " sums . " As in the colleges of that time , so in elementary schools , manuscript books were used whenever printed ones were not accessible . To advanced boys the teacher would give ...
... became necessary for the teacher to dictate the " sums . " As in the colleges of that time , so in elementary schools , manuscript books were used whenever printed ones were not accessible . To advanced boys the teacher would give ...
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... became almost invisible in the distant rear . The mathematical course at Harvard remained apparently the same till the beginning of the eighteenth century . Arithmetic and a little geometry and astronomy constituted the sum total of the ...
... became almost invisible in the distant rear . The mathematical course at Harvard remained apparently the same till the beginning of the eighteenth century . Arithmetic and a little geometry and astronomy constituted the sum total of the ...
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... became later his successor at Harvard . In 1769 Winthrop had another chance for observing the transit of Venus , at Cambridge . " As it was the last opportunity that generation could be favored with , he was desirous to arrest the ...
... became later his successor at Harvard . In 1769 Winthrop had another chance for observing the transit of Venus , at Cambridge . " As it was the last opportunity that generation could be favored with , he was desirous to arrest the ...
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... became later president of King's ( now Columbia ) College in New York . Soon after this the Physics of Rohault was introduced at Yale as a text - book . Rohault ( 1620-75 ) was a French philosopher and an im plicit follower of the ...
... became later president of King's ( now Columbia ) College in New York . Soon after this the Physics of Rohault was introduced at Yale as a text - book . Rohault ( 1620-75 ) was a French philosopher and an im plicit follower of the ...
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... became signers of the Declaration of Independence , and also the illustrious Thomas Jefferson , who became the author of this great document . At William and Mary , Jefferson was a passionate student of mathematics . The college long ...
... became signers of the Declaration of Independence , and also the illustrious Thomas Jefferson , who became the author of this great document . At William and Mary , Jefferson was a passionate student of mathematics . The college long ...
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Σελίδα 34 - It was my great good fortune, and what probably fixed the destinies of my life, that Dr. William Small of Scotland, was then professor of Mathematics, a man profound in most of the useful branches of science, with a happy talent of communication, correct and gentlemanly manners, and an enlarged and liberal mind.
Σελίδα 106 - It is with no feeling of pride, as an American, that the remark may be made that, on the comparatively small territorial surface of Europe, there are existing upward of one hundred and thirty of these lighthouses of the skies ; while throughout the whole American hemisphere there is not one.
Σελίδα 41 - When we shall have existed as a people as long as the Greeks did before they produced a Homer, the Romans a Virgil, the French a Racine and Voltaire, the English a Shakespeare and Milton, should this reproach be still true, we will enquire from what unfriendly causes it has proceeded...
Σελίδα 378 - If a straight line meet 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 - As an artist he has exhibited as great a proof of mechanical genius as the world has ever produced. He has not indeed made a world; but he has by imitation approached nearer its Maker than any man who has lived from the creation to this day.
Σελίδα 12 - The American Instructor, or Young Man's Best Companion, containing Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetick, in an easier Way than any yet published; and how to qualify any Person for Business, without the Help of a Master.
Σελίδα 286 - He was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1954.
Σελίδα 65 - Astronomy explained upon Sir Isaac Newton's principles, and made easy to those who have not studied Mathematics...
Σελίδα 35 - Besides this, the faculties of the mind, like the members of the body, are strengthened and improved by exercise. Mathematical reasonings and deductions are therefore a fine preparation for investigating the abstruse speculations of the law.
Σελίδα 275 - Development of the Perturbative Function and its Derivative in Sines and Co-sines of the Eccentric Anomaly and in Powers of the Eccentricities and Inclinations.