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...presentation of the differential calculus, I regard as exceedingly useful, from the [[wiktionary:didactic#Adjective|didactic]] standpoint, and indeed indis ...defined by the one immediately preceding; the simplest act is the passing from an already-formed individual to the consecutive new one to be formed. The c ...

...have therefore kept the consideration of molecular motions quite distinct from the exposition of the general theory. ...a quantity of heat and the quantity of work which it can possibly produce, from which relation conclusions regarding the nature of heat itself might be ded ...

...can read it in two days. And then (since he already knows the formal rules from school) he may forget its contents. * In 1933 Landau was dismissed from his [University of Göttingen] chair on the grounds of his race. An importan ...

* The views of space and time which I wish to lay before you have sprung from the soil of experimental physics, and therein lies their strength. They are ...n created for deducing henceforth the complete series of Laws of Mechanics from the principle of [[w:Conservation of energy|conservation of energy]] (and s ...

...]] from whom I received the decisive impulse to study [[abstract algebra]] from an arithmetical viewpoint, and this remained the governing idea for all my ** As quoted in Morris Kline, ''Mathematical Thought From Ancient to Modern Times'' (1972) p. 1153. ...

...e:w:Johannes Tropfke|Tropfke]] is an example of the tendency to break away from the mere chronological recital of facts. ...h century the cubic equation had begun to attract attention, as is evident from the [[w:Jigu Suanjing|Ch'i-ku Suan-king]] of [[w:Wang Xiaotong|Wang Hs'iao- ...

...opinion]] [[truths]] of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations. * The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is k ...

...rk was translated and edited by Thomas J. McCormack, and a second edition, from which the following quotes are taken, appeared in 1901. ...s a science almost entirely due to the moderns... for we have one treatise from the Greeks, that of [[Diophantus]]... the only one which we owe to the anci ...

...ium chloride is a conductor, the little lamp lights. (''black liquid oozes from lamp'') Small quantities of Thomason's oil segnomin are also produced. :'''Narrator:''' The largest number is about 45,000,000,000 although mathematicians suspect that there may be even larger numbers. ...

...also known as '''James''' or '''Jacques'''; was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the {{w|Bernoulli family}}. He was an early proponent of Leibnizian [[ca ...1703;" and other solutions have been given by some of the most celebrated mathematicians of Europe... ...

...e courts in {{w|Kassel}} and {{w|Prague}}, was a Swiss {{w|clockmaker}}, [[Mathematicians|mathematician]], and [[Authors|writer]]. Bürgi has been credited, independe ...t Bürgi... from Switzerland, and [[Johannes Kepler|Johann Kepler]]... from Germany.<!--pp. 302-303, 1991--> ...

...d]<br />9.If the quantities in the same proportion are subtracted likewise from amounts in the same proportion, the differences are in proportion. [a:b::c: ** From [[w:Frédéric Louis Ritter|Frédéric Louis Ritter]]'s French Tr. Introduction ...

** [[w:Peter Bergmann|Peter G. Bergmann]], ''The Riddle of Gravitation: From Newton to Einstein to Today's Exciting Theories'' (1968) pp. 25-26. ** [[w:Peter Bergmann|Peter G. Bergmann]], ''The Riddle of Gravitation: From Newton to Einstein to Today's Exciting Theories'' (1968) p. 26. ...

...ion'' (1920) p. 98; also by Joseph Silk, ''The Infinite Cosmos: Questions from the Frontiers of Cosmology'' (2006) ...moving intelligences of the planets are weakest in those that are farthest from the sun, or... there is one moving intelligence in the sun, the common cent ...

...om|free]] [[government]] exempt from [[king]]s and [[priest]]s and to free from this double yoke the long usurped soil of Europe. I readily became enamored ** Letter to Edmé Pierre Alexanre Villetard (June/July, 1795) from prison, as quoted by {{w|John Herivel}}, ''Joseph Fourier—The Man and the P ...

...([[September 17]], [[1826]] – [[July 20]], [[1866]]) was an influential [[Germany|German]] [[mathematician]] who made lasting and revolutionary contributions ...etails/TheEvolutionOfScientificThought The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein]'' (1927) p. 55. ...

* Almost all of fluid dynamics follows from a differential equation called the [[w:Navier-Stokes equation|Navier-Stokes ...me historical circumstances... This memoir concluded with an invitation to mathematicians, to sum up a very general differential equation, of great use in analysis. ...

...llectual Cooperation|International Committee on Intellectual Cooperation]] from 1925 to his death. ...7. Lecture delivered before the 73rd Naturforscher Versammlung at Hamburg. From the ''Physikalische Zeitshrift'', of October 1, 1901. ...

...t mistaken, they have not as yet succeeded. I therefore dare hope that the mathematicians will receive this memoir with good will, for its purpose is to fill this ga ...on of the fifth degree in terms of radicals''.<br />It follows immediately from this theorem, that it is also impossible to solve the general equations of ...

...he testimony and have set forth what seem to be the reasonable conclusions from the evidence...<!--p. iv--> .... sets of numerals, and the [[w:Ancient Rome|Roman]] symbols... changed... from century to century.<!--p. 1--> ...