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...tor|translator]], a counselor of King [[w:Charles V of France|Charles V of France]], and probably one of the most original thinkers of the 14th century. ...ommunity may control it as it wills, and therefore may make as much profit from alteration as it likes, and treat money as its own property. ...

...egory theory]]. He was an Invited Speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Nice in 1970. ...somorphism of ''A'' onto ''C''⁰(''S'';<math>\mathbb{C}</math>). From that point on the evolution of the meaning of the word ''spectrum'' can be ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...to kings of France, [[w:Henry III of France|Henry III]] and [[Henry IV of France|Henry IV]]. ...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: ...

...a matter of common usage to call the barbarous age that time which extends from about 900 or a thousand years up to about 150 years past, since men were fo ...f so great advantage. ...they may all deliver them selves when they will, from so much and so great labour. ...

...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... ...

...tractive number, the result is their subtractive difference; if the number from which one subtracts is smaller than the number subtracted, the result is th ...J. Katz, Karen Hunger Parshall, ''Taming the Unknown: A History of Algebra from Antiquity to the Early Twentieth Century'' (2014) p. 160. ...

...igin, then its partner must be at an infinite distance from the origin. If from any point ''P'' lines be drawn through the six points, these lines cut any ...t line may be considered as meeting at infinity, and that parallels differ from other pairs of lines only in having their points of intersection at infinit ...

...ktionary:accompt#Verb|accompted]] happie, yea though mortall men were free from all calamities, yet the torments & feare of death should stil attend them B * From these beginnings, as it were, have issued bitterness, contentious obstinanc ...

* 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. ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...simals... Lined up against these naysayers were some of the most prominent mathematicians and philosophers of that era, who championed the use of the infinitesimally ...mes be inclined to overemphasize the smoothness of the curve; professional mathematicians, mindful of the dominant part played in geometry by the singularities of cu ...

...er the world have been known to take part in the annual commemorative walk from {{w|Dunsink Observatory}} to the site. ...geometry may be conveniently divided into five periods. The first extends from the origin of the science to about A. D. 550, followed by a period of about ...

...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 ...

* Now this ratio of the single to the double arises, no doubt, from the [[wiktionary:ternary#Adjective|ternary]] number, since one added to two * What English mathematicians were most intrigued by and, at times, embarrassed about was the explanation ...

...thematicians did not feel so encumbered and have required only consistency from their lists of axioms. ...It remains to be seen whether the initial conditi ...mes be inclined to overemphasize the smoothness of the curve; professional mathematicians, mindful of the dominant part played in geometry by the singularities of cu ...

...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 ...

....', as [[Bertrand Russell|Russell]] has averred, makes things easy for the mathematicians, but it is not true of the physical world (the same Russell said it is an a ...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 ...