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...ientist)|Thomas Young]]. He became a deacon, then priest, in the Church of England, and later, Vicar of Wymewold and [[w:Dean of Ely|Dean of Ely]] cathedral, ...n and gratitude.<br />I trust that I shall not be considered as derogating from the higher duties which, (in common with you), I owe to my station in the C ...

...t the writings of the [[w:Bernoulli family|Bernoullis]] are not antiquated from loss of beauty, nor deserve neglect...<!--Preface p.iv-v--> ...subject, yet I cannot flatter myself that it will be thoroughly understood from this Work alone. For, in general it may be laid down as true, that '''no do ...

* '''Perhaps the first to approach the fourth dimension from the side of physics, was the Frenchman, [[Nicole Oresme]], of the fourteent ...e past must be recalled by the dubious aid of memory, the future is hidden from us, and only the present is directly experienced. This striking dissimilari ...

...not wanted, as it ought to have been, by our classical professors and our mathematicians, it would have served at any rate to quicken, with some human interest, the ...articular, but who likes to watch how things grow, will be able to extract from these pages a notion of the whole history of mathematical science down to [ ...

...what they really mean? It is probably because I am a [[mathematician]] and mathematicians do not mind so much about that sort of thing. They do not need precise [[de ...ew I had about consciousness and why it was not something that comes about from complicated calculations. So we are not exactly computers.''' There's somet ...

...account that most important faculty which distinguishes topics of interest from others; in fact, we are regarding the function of the mathematician as simp * Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. The ...

...ty of so many gross Mistakes, which prevent themselves, as well as others, from finding that [[Satisfaction]], they otherwise would do in their [[Performan ...'[[w:Opticks|[T]he Theory]] I have endeavour'd to explain in the Appendix, from Sir [[Isaac Newton]], may be of very great us'''e to Learners.<!--Preface p ...

...le:Dirac,Paul 1929 Chicago.jpg|thumb|right|It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting [[beauty]] in one's equations, and if one has * At the beginning of time the laws of Nature were probably very different from what they are now. Thus '''we should consider the laws of Nature as continu ...

...e:w:Johannes Tropfke|Tropfke]] is an example of the tendency to break away from the mere chronological recital of facts. ...ition appeared in 1685. In this there is seen the first serious attempt in England to write on the history of mathematics, and the result shows a wide range o ...

* The subject of this book is the structure of space-time on length-scales from 10^-13cm, the radius of an elementary particle, up to 10<sup>28</ ...managed, however, only because of the large amount of help I have received from my wife, children, colleagues and students. I find that people in general a ...

...e others, being compelled, produce their assent to those utterances of the mathematicians rather than understand a genuine investigation of the problem.<!--prop. 107 ...ng then to augmented series... and diminished... or altered... constituted from sums or differences of two or more other series. ...[I]t was not too diffic ...

...ted or understood. The reason why Diophantos was the earliest of the Greek mathematicians to be forgotten is also probably the reason why he was the last to be re-di ...m|Porisms]]'' form the part the loss of which is most to be regretted, for from the references to them it is clear that they contained propositions in the ...

...rinceton University]] for the rest of his career. He died of complications from [[Coronavirus disease 2019|COVID-19]] at age 82. * When I was on the train from [[Liverpool]] to [[Cambridge]] to become a student, it occurred to me that ...

...and force, together with the ideas associated with them, entirely removed from scientific terminology—to reduce, in fact, all [[w:Dynamics (mechanics)|dyn ...y uniform curvature, but that slight variations of the curvature may occur from point to point, and themselves vary with the time. These variations of the ...

...re. '''Do I seem to say, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die?" Far from it; on the contrary, I say, "Let us take [[hands]] and [[help]], for this d ...etails/TheEvolutionOfScientificThought The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein]'' (1927) ...

...one of the destroyers of that great seate, and '''a purger of the world''' from Antichristianisme, '''who purgeth not his owne countrie? Shall he purge his ...bursted I oute in continuall reasoning against my said familiar, but also from thence forth I determined with myself by the assistance of God's spirit to ...

...rks as many Miracles; which blabs out nothing rashly, nor designs anything from the Purpose, but plainly demonstrates and readily performs all Things withi ...al Tunes, add a pleasant Voice to a sapless Log and draw a sweet Eloquence from a rigid Metal; celebrate our Maker with an harmonious Praise, and not unapt ...

...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 ...

...ilton and Jakob Boehme: A Study of German Mysticism in Seventeenth-century England'' (1914)]]<br />[[#Problems of Mysticism and Its Symbolism (1917)|''Problem * Now this ratio of the single to the double arises, no doubt, from the [[wiktionary:ternary#Adjective|ternary]] number, since one added to two ...

...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 ...