 The work was repugnant to me, chiefly from my not being able to see any meaning in the early steps in algebra. This impatience was very foolish, and in after years I have deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something...  MacMillan's Magazine - Pagina 247geredigeerd door - 1888Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 584 pagina’s
...even went, during the summer of 1828 with a private tutor (a very dull man) to Barmouth, but I got on very slowly. The work •was repugnant to me, chiefly...far enough at least to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem tohave an extra sense. ... In order... | |
 | 1889 - 488 pagina’s
...wasted, as far as academical studies were concerned, as completely as at Edinburgh and at school. I hava deeply regretted that I did not proceed far enough, at least, to understand something of the great leading principles of mathematics, for men thus endowed seem to have an extra sense. But I do... | |
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