The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - 400 σελίδες |
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... ( e ) Circle Squarers .... APPENDIX . BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FLUXIONS AND THE CALCULUS ...... Page . 231 236 239 244 253 261 277 286 293 361 376 335 388 391 395 THE TEACHING AND HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS IN THE UNITED STATES 8 CONTENTS . co.
... ( e ) Circle Squarers .... APPENDIX . BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FLUXIONS AND THE CALCULUS ...... Page . 231 236 239 244 253 261 277 286 293 361 376 335 388 391 395 THE TEACHING AND HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS IN THE UNITED STATES 8 CONTENTS . co.
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... calculus . Though the plans of study included then about all the subjects pursued in the average American college of to - day , these subjects were not taught with the same thoroughness . Moreover , we are now teaching at least twice as ...
... calculus . Though the plans of study included then about all the subjects pursued in the average American college of to - day , these subjects were not taught with the same thoroughness . Moreover , we are now teaching at least twice as ...
Σελίδα 100
... Calculus he says : " Nor is it impracticable for the majority of students to become intelligent in these subjects . They do not lie beyond the reach of good common minds , nor require peculiar mental characteristics for their mastery ...
... Calculus he says : " Nor is it impracticable for the majority of students to become intelligent in these subjects . They do not lie beyond the reach of good common minds , nor require peculiar mental characteristics for their mastery ...
Σελίδα 102
... calculus , against those of " dot - age , " or of the Newtonian notation . This struggle ended in the introduction into Cambridge of the Continental no . tation ( d ) to the exclusion of the fluxional notation ( ŷ ) . This was a great ...
... calculus , against those of " dot - age , " or of the Newtonian notation . This struggle ended in the introduction into Cambridge of the Continental no . tation ( d ) to the exclusion of the fluxional notation ( ŷ ) . This was a great ...
Σελίδα 103
... Calculus . We know also that he was a diligent student of the works of Lagrange and Laplace , which contained the notation of Leibnitz throughout . The first article in the Memoirs of the American Acad . emy of Arts and Sciences , which ...
... Calculus . We know also that he was a diligent student of the works of Lagrange and Laplace , which contained the notation of Leibnitz throughout . The first article in the Memoirs of the American Acad . emy of Arts and Sciences , which ...
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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.