 | Walter Warwick Sawyer - 1982 - 228 pages
...mathematicians have come to regard parallel lines as if they were a special case of concurrent lines ( ' mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things'). In fact, we talk as if P and Q really did represent something. We have got into the way of saying 'parallel... | |
 | Michigan Schoolmasters' Club - 1909 - 238 pages
...may sometimes serve as an exercise in secondary instruction. At a first thought the statement that "mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things" may appear to be entirely contrary to the facts, but from a cerain standpoint this statement conveys... | |
 | James Z. Wang - 2001 - 198 pages
...applications were provided. 3Defined as the ratio of standard deviation to mean. Chapter 3 WAVELETS Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912) 1. INTRODUCTION When constructing basis functions of a transform,... | |
 | John de Pillis - 2002 - 364 pages
...Courtesy Norman MacLeod, Gaelic Wolf Consulting. M: Mathematics is Economical/Not Economical 1 93 [435] Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things When the language is well chosen, we are astonished to learn that all the proofs made for a certain... | |
 | Russell Merris - 2003 - 572 pages
...: each of 1,2, and 3 is among the digits of x} and A is the set in part (a). 1.2. PASCAL'S TRIANGLE Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. — Henri Poincaré (1854-1912) In how many different ways can an r-element subset be chosen from an... | |
 | Tricia Armstrong - 2003 - 146 pages
...discover how and why the names were chosen. Math Connection: Mathematician Henri Poincare once stated that mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. Ask students to consider what he might have meant by this and to suggest examples that support or refute... | |
 | Wiesław Krawcewicz, Bindhyachal Rai - 2003 - 718 pages
...writing everything on the board, while Riesz was standing next to the board nodding (Aniko Szabo) y Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. (Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912) - French mathematician) A student at our high school a few years... | |
 | Obi-Wan Yoda - 2004 - 367 pages
...Derivatives — Working Paper. CHAPTER XII APPROXIMATION TOOLS FOR MULTI-DIMENSIONAL INTEGRALS COMPUTATION "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things." H. Poincare In this chapter, the methods presented are well known. Our goal here is to restate them... | |
 | A. W. Carus - 2007 - 270 pages
...7 Indeed, Poincare thought innovations of language were the essential contribution of mathematics: 'mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things . . .This is one of the characteristics regarding the axioms of geometry and the laws of mechanics... | |
 | 1925 - 434 pages
...severally ejected. And solar cycle by solar cycle mass is lost to the solar system. 1'oincare has said that mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. .. L am going .to take .my courage in my hiintls, and give this name to something that I feel sure... | |
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I have already said somewhere that mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things. 
