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...br />2. The validity of the testimony of early Arabic writers ascribing to India the numerals with zero is shaken, but not destroyed.<br />3. There is not a * My quotations from [[Isaac Newton|Newton]] suggest the motive which induced him to take a stan ...

...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--> ...

...auss]]. He became a Fellow of the [[w:Royal Society|Royal Society]], and [[India]] now observes his birthday as [[w:National Mathematics Day|National Mathem ...ivergent series]] in general and the results I get are termed by the local mathematicians as "startling". ...Very recently I came across a tract published by you sty ...

...igonometric functions}} began in {{w|Hellenistic mathematics}}, reaching [[India]] as part of {{w|Hellenistic astronomy}}. In [[Indian astronomy]], the stud ...es]], the study of trigonometry continued in {{w|Islamic mathematics}}, by mathematicians such as {{w|Al-Khwarizmi}} and {{w|Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani}}. It became an ...

...orld could nevertheless be imagined, although it was a far different world from that of classical physics. In Minkowski's world the absolute which supersed ...etails/TheEvolutionOfScientificThought The Evolution of Scientific Thought from Newton to Einstein]'' (1927) pp. 210-211 ...

...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. ...

...s until all the terms on both sides are positive. Then we must take equals from equals until one term is left on each side. ...les, produces a square number. I shall prove this, and shall show also how from a given side to find its polygon and conversely. Some auxiliary proposition ...

...hematical reasoning, safe in the sense that contradictions will not result from the use of this infinite, subject to certain prescribed conditions? * For measurements of time he collected and weighed water flowing from a container at a constant rate of about three fluid ounces per second, He r ...

...ger: Life and Thought Cambridge University Press (1992). pp.170-73. quoted from Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being di ...sicists (1984) edited by Ken Wilber, Shambala Publications, Boston. quoted from Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being di ...

** '''In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.''' ...anslated by Robert Drew Hicks (1925); also in ''The Demon and the Quantum: From the Pythagorean Mystics to Maxwell's Demon'' (2007) by Robert J. Scully, Ma ...

...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 ...

* 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 ...

[[File:Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy.jpg |thumb|right|Truth is [[strong]] enough to overcome * [[Art]] is [[magic]] delivered from the lie of being truth. ...

...tions can be taken in other ways than by direct attack, that when repulsed from a direct assault it is well to reconnoitre and occupy the surrounding groun ...s ''impossible''. He thus showed '''by actual proof that which keen minded mathematicians had long suspected; namely, that the great army of circle-squarers have, fo ...

* I had too much stuff. My [[Machine|machines]] came from too far away. * The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopi ...