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* '''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 ...

...account that most important faculty which distinguishes topics of interest from others; in fact, we are regarding the function of the mathematician as simp ...which Turing was a fictionalized character. It shared a page with a quote from Imelda Marcos. ...

...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 [ ...ies, and the use of a brief and deceptive vocabulary, enormous conclusions from a very few observed facts: and it is not surprising if Pythagoras, having l ...

* 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 ...

...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) ...

...rks as many Miracles; which blabs out nothing rashly, nor designs anything from the Purpose, but plainly demonstrates and readily performs all Things withi ...every Age has hitherto acknowledged as deservedly honored, as the greatest Philosophers, the Ring-leaders of Arts; in whose Judgments how much these Studies [mathe ...

...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 ...

...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 ...

...bir ibn Hayyan|Geber]] saith, you must obtain the perfection of the matter from the seeds thereof. Sulphur and [[Mercury (element)|mercury]] are the minera ...her that the white dwarf gradually pulls a considerable amount of material from the outer envelope of the expanding red giant. At a certain point the white ...

...etails/historyofchemist02thoruoft/page/n10/mode/1up?view=theater Vol. II.] From 1850 to 1910 (1910).<!--History of Chemistry (book)--> ===Volume 1. From the Earliest Times to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century (1909)=== ...

...nce there may be any thing else which is not moved; but nothing hinders it from being naturally adapted to be moved: for '''earth also is not borne along; ...are used by philosophers to signify certain natures, precise and abstract from all these, which are neither subject to the senses, nor can be understood b ...

...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. ...

* In my view all salvation for philosophy may be expected to come from Darwin's theory. ** from Boltzmann's notes for his lecture on natural philosophy given on October 24 ...

...ronomer|astronomer]] and served as [[w:Astronomer Royal|Astronomer Royal]] from 1742, succeeding [[Edmond Halley]]. He is best known for two fundamental di ** ''A Letter from the Reverend Mr.'' James Bradley ''Savilian Proffesor of Astronomy at'' Oxf ...

...against these naysayers were some of the most prominent mathematicians and philosophers of that era, who championed the use of the infinitesimally small. These inc ...with the use of infinitely large and infinitely small quantities, to which philosophers objected in the usual treatment of the differential calculus. ...Another tr ...

...ure contained by one line such that all the straight lines falling upon it from one point among those lying within the figure are equal to one another;<br ...be added to equals, the wholes are equal.<br />3. If equals be subtracted from equals, the remainders are equal.<br />4. Things which coincide with one an ...

'''[[w:Infinity|Infinity]]''' (symbolzed: ∞) is a term derived from the Latin ''infinitas'' or "unboundedness" denoting concepts involving limi ...against these naysayers were some of the most prominent mathematicians and philosophers of that era, who championed the use of the infinitesimally small. These inc ...

...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 ...r|Fourier]] in that of trigonometric series, or [[w:Bhāskara II|Bhaskara]] from Lagrange in the region of [[w:Pell's equation|Fermat's equation]]. Professi ...

...lts of sodium are highly water-soluble: sodium {{w|ion}}s have accumulated from the [[w:Leaching (chemistry)|leaching]] action of water on Earth's minerals ...|Periodic table in the style of a space lemniscate of [[William Crookes]], from {{w|Edward G. Mazurs}}, ''Types of Graphic Representation of the Periodic S ...