The abstract world of mathematics and pure logic is so native to Mr. Russell that he thinks that we describers of the functions of concrete fact must also mean fixed mathematical terms and functions.
No one so far seems to have noticed my suggestion, and I am too ignorant of the development of mathematics to feel very confident of my own view.
What have mathematics to do with poor people in an ugly and poor part of town?
I do not give up my belief that the men will soon begin to run after your lectures as they did after those of Hypatia, and yet will become in the University as great a teacher of mathematics as Sir Isaac Newton himself.
She hated mathematics in any form and spent all her time on natural science, language, and literature.
Why in all this beautiful world, would they not allow me to do something I could do, and let any one of four members of my class who revelled in mathematics do my subject?
Works on mathematics and music have also been assigned to him, but the ascription may have arisen from confusion of his works with those of Gerlandus, a canon of Besancon in the 12th century.
East to west, along a ridge bounding the lower desert, ran the railroad, a line as harshly uncompromising as the cold mathematics of the engineers who had mapped it.
When I consulted the subject catalogue, to see under what head it had been customary to classify these lucubrations on Pi, I found, sure enough, that it was Mathematics Sec.
Southwark but by no less an authority than the Professor of mathematics of .
He was able to take the place of his professor in mathematics while he was yet in his theological studies, and subsequently occupied the chair of mathematics with great distinction for a generation.
Father Walcher was appointed imperial director of navigation and mathematics by Maria Theresa; Cabral, Lecci, and Riccati, were engaged by various governments in engineering works; Zeplichal was employed by Frederick II in exploiting mines.
Another objection frequently urged is that the Jesuits were really incapable of teaching Latin, Greek, mathematics or philosophy, and that in the last mentioned study they remorselessly crushed all originality.
Surely it would be difficult to get a man who knew more about mathematics than Clavius.
In the Jesuit College of Bogota the first instruction in physics and mathematics was given.
When the troubles subsided in France he was appointed professor of mathematics in Paris at the Rue des Postes, and became widely known as a man of unusual attainments.
At Stonyhurst, he wrote a work on mathematics and physics.
Indeed it is said that when his superiors told him to apply himself to mathematics he burst into tears.
He then accepted the appointment of professor of mathematics at the University of Pavia and helped to found the Observatory of Brera in Milan which with that of the Collegio Romano is among the most prominent in Italy.
Thus the names of publications on mathematics fill twenty-eight columns of the huge folio pages.
While at Lisbon, they devoted themselves to the study of mathematics and astronomy, and after two months their friend, the Irish merchant, came to tell them that there was a ship about to sail.
I was well advanced in arithmetic and in mathematics generally, and was confident, even if I was hardly fourteen years old, that I could do the work of a junior rodman.
But here we have a whole new galaxy for peaceful trade, a new mathematics that takes all the hazard out of space travel, our Mentorian friends and allies.
A system of mathematics to take the hazards from our star-travel.
Before the Lhari met up with men, they used a system of mathematics as clumsy as the old Roman numerals.
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After reading mathematics for some four years at Cambridge, it happened to me for the next ten years or so to be engaged in the study of the physical sciences, and in lectures on these subjects.
But when Mr Baer's letter confirmed the fact that Kennedy had not been reading with a tutor either in classics or mathematics during the previous quarter, it seemed impossible for any one any longer to shut his eyes to the truth.
The Pindar I had read once over with a crib; the morality I had not looked at; the mathematics I did not touch.
Latin and mathematics were always second to the Bible with Mr. Cocke," testifies another.
The good President had startled Charles with the flattering proposition that he should become a member of the Faculty of Richmond College, as assistant teacher inMathematics and as manager of the dining hall.
Realizing his precarious condition he voluntarily submitted to be incarcerated in an asylum, where he abjured mathematicsand devoted himself to writing the History of the Swiss Family Robinson in words of one syllable.
They saw that Cosmo's mathematics were unimpeachable.
Some readers of these confident statements began to waver, especially when confronted with mathematics which they could not understand.
He learned German in Frankfort; and on the family migrating to Paris the following year, he studied French and mathematics under a certain M.
Appointed head master of a school in connection with the Royal Academical Institute, he subsequently obtained the professorship of mathematics in that academy.
In 1855 he completed his year of military service at Cassel, then returned to Frankfort to qualify himself as a teacher of mathematics and science in the schools by means of private study and public lectures.
By diligent service he won the esteem of Mr. Beyerbach, and devoted his leisure to self-improvement, taking private lessons in mathematics and physics, and attending the lectures of Professor R.
In 1832 he was called to the chair of mathematics in the University of Glasgow, where he achieved a reputation by his text-books on arithmetic and mathematics.
He was to learn no Latin but to study Arithmetic, Mathematics and Artillery and to be thoroughly instructed in Economy.
Of this at least I am certain, that the merits of Newton in philosophy and mathematics are equalled in botany, and all the principles of natural history, by the immortal Von Linne.
Professor of Mathematics in the University of Edinburgh.
Instead he spent his time studying the mathematics of Euclid, and from them went on to the writings of Archimedes and the laws of mechanics.
At last, however, he succeeded in obtaining the chair of Professor of Mathematics at the University of Padua, then one of the greatest seats of learning in Italy.
His family were poor, and he needed a means of support, and so he applied for, and after a time obtained, appointment to the post of Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pisa.
It is the geometric analysis and the mathematicsof the thing.
The elaborate explanations of the teacher not only confused the child's mind, but bridged over the distance that lies between the concrete and the abstract, between the form of an object and the mathematics of the form.
But mathematics uses the infinite in magnitude; thus, the geometrician in his demonstrations says, "Let this line be infinite.
For in mathematics there is no error, since "there is no lie in things abstract," as the Philosopher says (Phys.
But mathematics are entities; otherwise there would be no science of mathematics.
But in mathematics demonstration is not made by the efficient cause, as appears from the Philosopher (Metaph.
The science of mathematics treats its object as though it were something abstracted mentally, whereas it is not abstract in reality.
For the astronomer and the physicist both may prove the same conclusion: that the earth, for instance, is round: the astronomer by means of mathematics (i.
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