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...public schools. ...If it was not wanted, as it ought to have been, by our classical professors and our mathematicians, it would have served at any rate to quic ..., and it does not seem likely that there were fewer at any time during the classical period. They were mostly {{w|Lydia}}ns, {{w|Phrygia}}ns, [[w:Thrace|Thracia ...

...olved, and to express as clearly as possible the results, of the labors of scholars who have studied the subject...<!--p. iv--> ...r. {{w|Steven T. Byington}} for Arabic transliterations... and... to other scholars in Oriental learning...<!--p. iv--> ...

...October 1861 – 16 March 1940) was a British civil servant, mathematician, classical scholar, historian of ancient Greek mathematics, translator, and mountainee ...y of Greek mathematics in the eyes both of mathematicians and of classical scholars.<!--Preface p.v--> ...

...rait of quantum mechanics, the one that enforces its entire departure from classical lines of thought.''' [italics in the original] ...epest insight into the happenings of the world.''' The striving of all the scholars of [[Vedanta]] was after having learnt to pronounce with their lips, really ...

...he history of mathematics, and the result shows a wide range of reading of classical literature of the science'''. This work is also noteworthy because it conta ...century. ...numerical higher equations attracted the special attention of scholars like [[w:Qin Jiushao|Ch'in Kiu-shao]] (c.1250), [[w:Li Ye (mathematician)|L ...

* Many scholars go right through the period of their mathematical education without being i ...hole and the ratios were used only in proportions.''' However, even in the classical period genuine fractions... as entities in their own right, were used in co ...

...my by explaining two calendars of the years 123 B.C. and 111 B.C. ...These scholars have succeeded in giving an account of the Babylonian calculation of the ne ...er in it. ...All the knowledge of geometry which they possessed when Greek scholars visited them, six centuries B.C., was doubtless known to them two thousand ...

...n|trisection of the angle]]—have since been known as the "three famous (or classical) problems" of antiquity. More than 2200 years later it was proved that all ..., and a loosely-founded but far more fertile method. ...in practically all classical texts the first [the exhaustion] method was used. This... may be connected ...

...the best way to gain appreciation of the intelligence and ingenuity of the scholars of early times. ...public schools. ...If it was not wanted, as it ought to have been, by our classical professors and our mathematicians, it would have served at any rate to quic ...

...eatest importance were made simultaneously by different men of genius. The classical example is the... development of the infinitesimal calculus by [[Isaac Newt ...Hamilton at the classic {{w|Brougham Bridge}}. But... we owe duties to our scholars as well as to our teachers, and the world is too large, and the current of ...

...t specified. In view of the fact that as a consequence of the work of the classical Greeks mathematical results were supposed to be derived deductively from an ...omas Baker]], and [[Edmond Halley|Edmund Halley]]. The success of the Arab scholars in this field may have deterred them from trying methods of approximation ...

...Early Pythagorean communities spread throughout {{w|Magna Graecia}}. Today scholars typically distinguish two periods of Pythagoreanism: early-Pythagoreanism, ...hey merely reechoed the [[w:Platonic Academy|Academy]] and the [[w:Lyceum (Classical)|Lyceum]] with Stoic additions. In all this Neo-Pythagoreanism has little o ...

...the best way to gain appreciation of the intelligence and ingenuity of the scholars of early times. ...eatest importance were made simultaneously by different men of genius. The classical example is the... development of the infinitesimal calculus by [[Isaac Newt ...

...ean theorem|the relation]], because... this property was known and used by scholars and artisans of Oriental lands thousands of years before Pythagoras... Whil ...view, he was no less strict in prescribing ample preliminaries to his own scholars. At the time that a pupil was proposed to him, the master, we are told, exa ...

* [T]here is as yet no classical book of Trigonometry in any language... fit to give to learners a solid fou ...elves by this or that pretty little discovery or by some commentary on the classical treatises.<!--p. 260--> ...

* Isn’t there a saying among [[Islamic]] scholars that '''even the truth spoken by an enemy is part of the truth'''? ...finition of the term 'true sentence'''. This problem, which belongs to the classical problems of philosophy, raises considerable difficulties. For although the ...