Place of Mathematics in University Education: Inaugural Address of Charlton T. Lewis, Professor of Pure Mathematics in Troy University, Delivered Before the Trustees at Their Annual Meeting July 20th, 1859A.W. Scribner and Company, printers, 1859 - 26 pagina's |
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... monomania ! Glance hastily at the history of the two . You see that Mathematics have been always steadily progressive ; met- aphysics have been fixedly stationary . The former science has been adding at every step to human knowl- 4.
... monomania ! Glance hastily at the history of the two . You see that Mathematics have been always steadily progressive ; met- aphysics have been fixedly stationary . The former science has been adding at every step to human knowl- 4.
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... former accordingly has always been the wonder of the uninitiated ; the latter their laughing - stock . You re- member the judgment of Varro , Cicero's friend , and the greatest reader , as well as the most voluminous author , of ancient ...
... former accordingly has always been the wonder of the uninitiated ; the latter their laughing - stock . You re- member the judgment of Varro , Cicero's friend , and the greatest reader , as well as the most voluminous author , of ancient ...
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... former method alone can advance to truth that is reliable and wholly new ; that is , only Induction discovers ; the other properly evolves from a principle something already tacitly contained in it attaches a predicate that was before ...
... former method alone can advance to truth that is reliable and wholly new ; that is , only Induction discovers ; the other properly evolves from a principle something already tacitly contained in it attaches a predicate that was before ...
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... former , though requiring special care , according to the complication of the problem , is always essentially the same in its nature . But the latter varies illimitably . Yet amid all its varieties , the one thing essential to a valid ...
... former , though requiring special care , according to the complication of the problem , is always essentially the same in its nature . But the latter varies illimitably . Yet amid all its varieties , the one thing essential to a valid ...
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... former case , we are sure the class - type is before us ; in the latter , we have no certain means of determining whether it is represented in what we see . Hence the first question in examining any Induction is , how far do the ...
... former case , we are sure the class - type is before us ; in the latter , we have no certain means of determining whether it is represented in what we see . Hence the first question in examining any Induction is , how far do the ...
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A. W. SCRIBNER Algebra amid Arithmetic branch of knowledge branches named CANNON PLACE CARD AND JOB class-type course of study Creator's hand daring thought Deduction discipline elementary branches ematical Euclid exact fact forever former Geometry habits of thought Hence History of Mathematical human knowl husk important Inductive reasoning infant crying inferred infinite instance intellect investigation and discovery JOB PRINTERS labor language literary Math Mathematical Science Mathematician MATHEMATICS IN TROY Mathematics in University mental analysis mental culture metaphysics methods mind's modern nations perfect perhaps Philosophy of Mathematical Place of Mathematics Plato principles PROFESSOR OF PURE progress PURE MATHEMATICS pursued Pythagoras reliable Science of Thought seems shew shut Sir William Hamilton solar system star step student symbols theme thought are formed to-day toil TROY UNIVERSITY true scientific spirit TRUSTEES truth University Course University Education Varro word Gravitation young mind
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Pagina 1 - Behold, we know not anything; I can but trust that good shall fall At last— far off— at last, to all, And every winter change to spring. So runs my dream ; but what am I ? An infant crying in the night ; An infant crying for the light, And with no language but a cry.
Pagina 18 - That Beauty, Good, and Knowledge, are three sisters That doat upon each other, friends to man, Living together under the same roof, And never can be sunder'd without tears.
Pagina 3 - But for those first affections, Those shadowy recollections, Which, be they what they may, Are yet the fountain-light of all our day, Are yet a master-light of all our seeing; Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal Silence: truths that wake, To perish never...
Pagina 18 - ... dote upon each other, friends to man, Living together under the same roof, And never can be sundered without tears. And he that shuts Love out, in turn shall be Shut out from Love, and on her threshold lie Howling in outer darkness. Not for this Was common clay ta'en from the common earth, Moulded by God, and tempered with the tears Of angels to the perfect state of man.
Pagina 2 - In the mathematics I can report no deficience, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of the pure mathematics, in that they do remedy and cure many defects in the wit and faculties intellectual. For if the wit be too dull, they sharpen it; if too wandering, they fix it ; if too inherent in the sense, they abstract it.
Pagina 3 - The monotheist must draw a line between what he considers is proper to God and what is not; and the result is, on one side a God all of a kind, and on the other side a large part of the world without a God in it. Moreover, the more completely he raises God above the world, the more he removes Him from...
Pagina 4 - A careful examination of the question, in the light of such facts as I have been able to gather...