Elementary algebra, with brief notices of its history1879 |
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... jebr and al mokabalah , by which he designates certain operations peculiar to the solution of equations . However , he re- peatedly employs these two terms combined for the name of this entire branch of mathematical science . As the ...
... jebr and al mokabalah , by which he designates certain operations peculiar to the solution of equations . However , he re- peatedly employs these two terms combined for the name of this entire branch of mathematical science . As the ...
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... jebr and al mokabalah ; namely , the rule of jebr or restora- tion , and of mokabalah or reduction.1 Both Mohammed Ben Musa and other Arabian writers on Algebra did not adopt the Hindu notations . They have no symbols , arbitrary or ...
... jebr and al mokabalah ; namely , the rule of jebr or restora- tion , and of mokabalah or reduction.1 Both Mohammed Ben Musa and other Arabian writers on Algebra did not adopt the Hindu notations . They have no symbols , arbitrary or ...
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... jebr . This name was given to the operation because it was only after negative terms had been removed that the equation itself became capable of solution by the application of their rules . After al jebr followed al mokabalah , which ...
... jebr . This name was given to the operation because it was only after negative terms had been removed that the equation itself became capable of solution by the application of their rules . After al jebr followed al mokabalah , which ...
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... jebr and al mokabalah . These two operations ( one of which has given the name to the science ) are precisely what are enjoined , without distinctive appella- tions of them , in the introduction of the Arithmetics of Diophantus . He ...
... jebr and al mokabalah . These two operations ( one of which has given the name to the science ) are precisely what are enjoined , without distinctive appella- tions of them , in the introduction of the Arithmetics of Diophantus . He ...
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... Jebr , restoration ; let those things which are of the same kind , and equal on both sides , be thrown away ; this is Mokabalah , opposition . Book IX . contains the following twelve rules respecting the properties of numbers : - 1. To ...
... Jebr , restoration ; let those things which are of the same kind , and equal on both sides , be thrown away ; this is Mokabalah , opposition . Book IX . contains the following twelve rules respecting the properties of numbers : - 1. To ...
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Page 34 - ... la diversité de nos opinions ne vient pas de ce que les uns sont plus raisonnables que les autres, mais seulement de ce que nous conduisons nos pensées par diverses voies, et ne considérons pas les mêmes choses. Car ce n'est pas assez d'avoir l'esprit bon, mais le principal est de l'appliquer bien.
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Page 61 - The first of four magnitudes is said to have the same ratio to the second, which the third has to the fourth, when any...
Page 28 - As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. He is utterly void of all body and bodily figure, and can therefore neither be seen, nor heard, nor touched ; nor ought he to be worshipped under the representation of any corporeal thing. We have ideas of his attributes, but what the real substance of anything is, we know not.
Page 16 - The number of square units in the area of a rectangle...
Page 11 - But the answer is easy; for by the ultimate velocity is meant that with which the body is moved, neither before it arrives at its last place and the motion ceases, nor after, but at the very instant it arrives; that is, that velocity with which the body arrives at its last place, and with which the motion ceases.
Page 27 - This most beautiful system of the Sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an Intelligent and Powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centers of other like systems, these being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One...
Page 56 - Prove that if any number of quantities be in continued proportion, as one of the antecedents is to its consequent so is the sum of all the antecedents to the sum of all the consequents.
Page 17 - Collins, dated between the years 1669 and 1677, inclusive; and showed them to such as knew and avouched the hands of Mr. Barrow, Mr. Collins, Mr. Oldenburg, and Mr. Leibnitz ; and compared those of Mr. Gregory with one another, and with copies of some of them taken in the hand of Mr. Collins...
Page 11 - ... instant it arrives ; that is, that velocity with which the body arrives at its last place, and with which the motion ceases. " And in like manner, by the ultimate ratio of evanescent quantities...