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...the [[w:International Congress of Mathematicians|International Congress of Mathematicians]], he was an invited speaker in 1928 in Bologna, in 1950 in Cambridge, Mass }} (quote from p. 159) ...

...no]]''' ([[September 24]], [[1501]] – [[September 21]], [[1576]]) was an [[Italy|Italian]] [[w:Renaissance|Renaissance]] [[mathematician]], [[physician]], [ ...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 ...

...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 ...

...4th until the 3rd century BC. The {{w|Spartan}} colony of {{w|Taranto}} in Italy became the home for many practitioners of Pythagoreanism and later for Neop * If someone associates with a true Pythagorean, what will he will get from him, and in what quantity? I would say: statesmanship, geometry, astronomy, ...

...is called the "catenary" or "messenger" wire, and by insulating this wire from the supporting structures there is no necessity for insulated hangers on th ...ngth of walls to which arches are applied, may be geometrically determined from this theory, which are the chief things in the construction of edifices. ...

...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: ** From [[w:Frédéric Louis Ritter|Frédéric Louis Ritter]]'s French Tr. Introduction ...

...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 ...

...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--> ...

...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 ...

...o raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discove ...nding the shape of cables. ...If the actual shape of the arch is different from funicular shape, the bending moment at any section of an arch is proportion ...

...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 ...

** '''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 ...

...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 ...obst Bürgi]]... from Switzerland, and [[Johannes Kepler|Johann Kepler]]... from Germany.<!--pp. 302-303, 1991--> ...

* 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 ...

...e courts in {{w|Kassel}} and {{w|Prague}}, was a Swiss {{w|clockmaker}}, [[Mathematicians|mathematician]], and [[Authors|writer]]. Bürgi has been credited, independe ...Jobst Bürgi... from Switzerland, and [[Johannes Kepler|Johann Kepler]]... from Germany.<!--pp. 302-303, 1991--> ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...pping point reached through a gradual emergence of civilization, resulting from the efforts of mankind throughout the world, a merging of the manual with t ...v.1 - Robert Fludd, Integrae Naturae.jpg|thumb|<center>"Integrae Naturae" from<br />''Utriusque cosmi...'' (1624)<br /> [[Robert Fludd]]</center>]] ...

...is based on a calculus of operations, on laws of thought. All mathematics, from the first, was so in reality; but the evolvers of the modern higher calculu ...eptions found in traditional geometry and algebra which had been developed from spatial intuition. ...

...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 ...