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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... thousand bar- riers , each of which threatened to become the horizon of human knowledge forever , in favor of one which has never yet made one step of real progress , because its starting - point changes with every mind that attempts it ...
... thousand bar- riers , each of which threatened to become the horizon of human knowledge forever , in favor of one which has never yet made one step of real progress , because its starting - point changes with every mind that attempts it ...
Pagina 5
... thousand years since , what shall be said of the multiplied absurdities of modern metaphysics ? What would Varro say , could he stand in the metaphysical alcove of a modern public Library ? It was impossible that this waste of intellect ...
... thousand years since , what shall be said of the multiplied absurdities of modern metaphysics ? What would Varro say , could he stand in the metaphysical alcove of a modern public Library ? It was impossible that this waste of intellect ...
Pagina 12
... general culture , be spent on the treadmill . Indeed , it is an universal maxim , which has a thousand applications , that all true education combines , at each step , new methods of operation with the attainment of new truths 12.
... general culture , be spent on the treadmill . Indeed , it is an universal maxim , which has a thousand applications , that all true education combines , at each step , new methods of operation with the attainment of new truths 12.
Pagina 17
... thousand imper- fect ones would be . If any astronomer in the world should distinctly detect a star remaining visible in the field of his telescope , a small fraction of a second after theory has placed it behind the moon's disk , this ...
... thousand imper- fect ones would be . If any astronomer in the world should distinctly detect a star remaining visible in the field of his telescope , a small fraction of a second after theory has placed it behind the moon's disk , this ...
Pagina 23
... and superstitious Arithmetic has foot - prints among men to - day . All its thoughts are driven out long since from the schools , from education , from practical life . But they still find a refuge , with a thousand other exploded 23.
... and superstitious Arithmetic has foot - prints among men to - day . All its thoughts are driven out long since from the schools , from education , from practical life . But they still find a refuge , with a thousand other exploded 23.
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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...