The Teaching and History of Mathematics in the United StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1890 - 400 σελίδες |
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... higher educational institutions , and has been aided by 1,000 circulars of inquiry sent from this Office relating to the present condition of mathematical teaching in schools of all grades . I am convinced that this monograph will prove ...
... higher educational institutions , and has been aided by 1,000 circulars of inquiry sent from this Office relating to the present condition of mathematical teaching in schools of all grades . I am convinced that this monograph will prove ...
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... higher education by the founding of Harvard College . The nature of the early instruction given at this oldest of American colleges is of special interest to us . The earliest record bearing on the history of the rise of mathematical ...
... higher education by the founding of Harvard College . The nature of the early instruction given at this oldest of American colleges is of special interest to us . The earliest record bearing on the history of the rise of mathematical ...
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... higher than its source . It was not until the latter half of the seventeenth century that mathematical studies at old Cambridge rose into prominence . Impelled by the genius of Sir Isaac Newton , óld Cambridge advanced with such rapid ...
... higher than its source . It was not until the latter half of the seventeenth century that mathematical studies at old Cambridge rose into prominence . Impelled by the genius of Sir Isaac Newton , óld Cambridge advanced with such rapid ...
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... higher mathematics had not been entirely wanting . John Winthrop died in 1779 , and the robe of the departing prophet fell upon his former disciple , the Rev. Samuel Williams . Williams filled the mathematical chair for eight years ...
... higher mathematics had not been entirely wanting . John Winthrop died in 1779 , and the robe of the departing prophet fell upon his former disciple , the Rev. Samuel Williams . Williams filled the mathematical chair for eight years ...
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... higher branches of mathematics , and was one of the first philosophers America has produced , " that he was equalled by no man , except the most learned Professor Winthrop . " In his history of Yale , written in 1766 , the year of his ...
... higher branches of mathematics , and was one of the first philosophers America has produced , " that he was equalled by no man , except the most learned Professor Winthrop . " In his history of Yale , written in 1766 , the year of his ...
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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.