 | Florian Cajori - 1917 - 348 pages
...the mathematician of the faculty of observation ; Gauss called mathematics the science of the eye ... I could tell a story of almost romantic interest about...numbers melt in a surprising manner into one another, . . . which would very strikingly illustrate how much observation, divination, induction, experimental... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1917 - 344 pages
...the mathematician of the faculty of observation ; Gauss called mathematics the science of the eye ... I could tell a story of almost romantic interest about...numbers melt in a surprising manner into one another, . . . which would very strikingly illustrate how much observation, divination, induction, experimental... | |
 | 1926 - 576 pages
...the very anatomy of physical science. Time and the three dimensional space become inseparable; "they melt in a surprising manner into one another, like sunset tints or the colors of the dying dolphin." A CLASSIFICATION OF SECOND DEGREE LOCI OF SPACE1 By LJ PARADISO, Ohio... | |
 | 1912 - 712 pages
...of observation to the progress of mathematical discovery. Were it not unbecoming to dilate on one's personal experience, I could tell a story of almost...Numbers melt in a surprising manner into one another, . . . which would very strikingly illustrate how much observation, divination, induction, experimental... | |
 | Karen Hunger Parshall, David E. Rowe - 1994 - 532 pages
...literary hyperbole, Sylvester informed his audience that [w]ere it not unbecoming to dilate on one's personal experience, I could tell a story of almost...sunset tints or the colours of the dying dolphin, . . . which would very strikingly illustrate how much observation, divination, induction, experimental... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1878 - 1766 pages
...Association at Exeter, nine years ago, was no less amusing than learned. ' I could tell a story,' he said, ' of almost romantic interest about my own latest researches...the dying dolphin, " the last still loveliest." ' A note to the same address reads like an exciting passage in a novel— 'I discovered and developed the... | |
 | 762 pages
...of observation to the process of mathematical discovery*. Were it not unbecoming to dilate on one's personal experience, I could tell a story of almost romantic interest about my * Newton's Rule was to all appearance, and according to the more received opinion, obtained inductively... | |
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Were it not unbecoming to dilate on one's personal experience, I could tell a story of almost romantic interest about my own latest researches in a field where Geometry, Algebra, and the Theory of Numbers melt in a surprising manner into one another,... 
