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... write out more than half of the bookwork correctly . Many of the candidates had apparently prepared the subjects from text - books in which the order of Euclid is not preserved . By this means great confusion is introduced . In June ...
... write out more than half of the bookwork correctly . Many of the candidates had apparently prepared the subjects from text - books in which the order of Euclid is not preserved . By this means great confusion is introduced . In June ...
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... writing was invented . A comparison of the written names of numbers found in the records of ancient nations may lead to some probable conjectures respecting their possible connection in more early times . However interesting it might be ...
... writing was invented . A comparison of the written names of numbers found in the records of ancient nations may lead to some probable conjectures respecting their possible connection in more early times . However interesting it might be ...
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... writes that a sophist affirms of the Lacedemonians , that they scarcely knew how to number . This censure of the ignorance of the people of Lacedæmon , seems to imply that they did not frequent the school in the grove of Academus at ...
... writes that a sophist affirms of the Lacedemonians , that they scarcely knew how to number . This censure of the ignorance of the people of Lacedæmon , seems to imply that they did not frequent the school in the grove of Academus at ...
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... writer than Brahmegupta ) , and that another commentator has named him as one of the earliest writers on these sciences . Dr. Bhau Daji , in his essay , has shown that Aryabhatta was born A.D. 476 , as given by himself in the ...
... writer than Brahmegupta ) , and that another commentator has named him as one of the earliest writers on these sciences . Dr. Bhau Daji , in his essay , has shown that Aryabhatta was born A.D. 476 , as given by himself in the ...
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... writer on these sciences , he improved and extended the knowledge of them as they existed in his time . In the age of Meya , the author of the Surya Siddhanta , the moon's horizontal parallax was made to be 53 ′ 20 ′′ , which gave the ...
... writer on these sciences , he improved and extended the knowledge of them as they existed in his time . In the age of Meya , the author of the Surya Siddhanta , the moon's horizontal parallax was made to be 53 ′ 20 ′′ , which gave the ...
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a+b+c a²+b² Algebra arithmetical progression binomial Binomial Theorem biquadratic calculus coefficients common difference consist contains cube root cubic equation decimal denominator denote the number determined digits divided dividend divisible Eliminate equal Euclid Euclid's Elements expression extract factors find the number find the value fluxions four fourth fraction geometrical progression given equations greater Hence highest common divisor involving jebr least common multiple Leibnitz less letters mathematical means method method of fluxions multiplied natural numbers negative quantity Newton notation number of terms positive integer published quadratic equation quotient ratio reduced remainder respectively result second equation shew side signs solution square numbers square root substituted subtraction surd symbols theorem third tion treatise unity unknown quantities whence
Fréquemment cités
Page 29 - This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Page iv - The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that can render a reason.
Page 30 - We know him only by his most wise and excellent contrivances of things, and final causes; we admire him for his perfections; but we reverence and adore him on account of his dominion: for we adore him as his servants; and a god without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but Fate and Nature.
Page 32 - Théorie des fonctions analytiques, contenant les principes du calcul différentiel, dégagés de toute considération d'infiniment petits ou d'évanouissans, de limites ou de fluxions, et réduits à l'analyse algébrique des quantités finies; par JL Lagnuige.
Page 32 - Les plus grandes âmes sont capables des plus grands vices aussi bien que des plus grandes vertus ; et ceux qui ne marchent que fort lentement peuvent avancer beaucoup davantage , s'ils suivent toujours le droit chemin, que ne font ceux qui courent et qui s'en éloignent.
Page 6 - WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose.
Page 5 - To make an estimate, what might be the degree of this diminution, he considered with himself, that if the moon be retained in her orbit by the force of gravity, no doubt the primary planets are carried round the sun by the like power. And by comparing the periods of the several planets with their distances from the sun, he found, that if any power like gravity held them in their courses, its strength must decrease in the duplicate proportion of the increase of distance.
Page 59 - If four magnitudes are in proportion, the sum of the first and second is to their difference as the sum of the third and fourth is to their difference.