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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. ...

...which was not binding logically and then advanced in place of it the proof from ''n'' to ''n'' + 1. This is one of the several origins of the ''process'' o ...]s by reflection and refraction of a logarithmic spiral for rays emanating from the pole as a luminous point are equal logarithmic spirals.<br />The discov ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...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. ...

...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 ...

...that he carries into his work from the whole field of science, all the way from [[w:Ohm's law|Ohm’s law]] to [[w:Avogadro constant|Avogadro's number]]. He :<small> All quotes from the trade paperback edition published by Harvard University Press, {{ISBN|0 ...

...semanticscholar.org/c869/e99621b446230976eb942ba39d8acc289e0f.pdf}} (quote from p. B1049) ** This comment is modified in a later article derived from these talks: ...

...wo opposing extremes. ...[A]n avant-garde of wild ideas, often so detached from reality that they fail to become... other than eccentric curiosities. On th ...gh an immensity of wasted efforts. ...Good ideas are sometimes resurrected from fossils of past evolutions. ...