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... mathematician . takes pride in the fact that his science , more than any other , is an exact science , and that hardly anything ever done in mathematics has proved to be useless . The chemist smiles at the childish efforts of alchemists ...
... mathematician . takes pride in the fact that his science , more than any other , is an exact science , and that hardly anything ever done in mathematics has proved to be useless . The chemist smiles at the childish efforts of alchemists ...
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... mathematicians to failure ; it teaches that fortifications can be taken in other ways than by direct attack , that when repulsed from a direct assault it is well to recon- noitre and occupy the surrounding ground and to discover the ...
... mathematicians to failure ; it teaches that fortifications can be taken in other ways than by direct attack , that when repulsed from a direct assault it is well to recon- noitre and occupy the surrounding ground and to discover the ...
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... mathematicians had long suspected ; namely , that the great army of circle - squarers have , for two thousand years , been assaulting a fortification which is as indestructible as the firmament of heaven . Another reason for the ...
... mathematicians had long suspected ; namely , that the great army of circle - squarers have , for two thousand years , been assaulting a fortification which is as indestructible as the firmament of heaven . Another reason for the ...
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... mathematicians who came to the Egyptian priests for instruction . An insight into Egyptian methods of numeration was ob- tained through the ingenious deciphering of the hieroglyphics by Champollion , Young , and their successors . The ...
... mathematicians who came to the Egyptian priests for instruction . An insight into Egyptian methods of numeration was ob- tained through the ingenious deciphering of the hieroglyphics by Champollion , Young , and their successors . The ...
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... Greek geometry before Euclid consist merely of scattered notices in ancient writers . The early mathematicians , Thales and Pythagoras , A full left behind no written records of their discoveries 16 A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS . III.
... Greek geometry before Euclid consist merely of scattered notices in ancient writers . The early mathematicians , Thales and Pythagoras , A full left behind no written records of their discoveries 16 A HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS . III.
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