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... Leibniz in London , " in Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Academie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin , Februar , 1891 . 41. DE MORGAN , A. Articles " Fluxions " and " Commercium Epistoli- cum , " in the Penny Cyclopædia . 42 ...
... Leibniz in London , " in Sitzungsberichte der Königlich Preussischen Academie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin , Februar , 1891 . 41. DE MORGAN , A. Articles " Fluxions " and " Commercium Epistoli- cum , " in the Penny Cyclopædia . 42 ...
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... Leibniz , and Lagrange played in creating that science . In his historical talk it is possible for the teacher to make it plain to the student that mathematics is not a dead science , but a living one in which steady progress is made ...
... Leibniz , and Lagrange played in creating that science . In his historical talk it is possible for the teacher to make it plain to the student that mathematics is not a dead science , but a living one in which steady progress is made ...
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... Leibniz . Up to the seventeenth century , mathematics was cultivated but little in Great Britain . During the sixteenth century , she brought forth no mathematician comparable with Vieta , Stifel , or Tartaglia . But with the time of ...
... Leibniz . Up to the seventeenth century , mathematics was cultivated but little in Great Britain . During the sixteenth century , she brought forth no mathematician comparable with Vieta , Stifel , or Tartaglia . But with the time of ...
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... Leibniz . He considers lines as composed of an infinite number of points , surfaces as com- posed of an infinite number of lines , and solids of an infinite number of planes . The relative magnitude of two solids or surfaces could then ...
... Leibniz . He considers lines as composed of an infinite number of points , surfaces as com- posed of an infinite number of lines , and solids of an infinite number of planes . The relative magnitude of two solids or surfaces could then ...
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... Leibniz saw it in Paris and reported on a portion of its contents . The precocious youth made vast progress in all the sciences , but the constant application at so tender an age greatly impaired his health . Yet he continued working ...
... Leibniz saw it in Paris and reported on a portion of its contents . The precocious youth made vast progress in all the sciences , but the constant application at so tender an age greatly impaired his health . Yet he continued working ...
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Page 202 - I was so persecuted with discussions arising out of my theory of light, that I blamed my own imprudence for parting with so substantial a blessing as my quiet, to run after a shadow.
Page 298 - THEOREM If a straight line falling on two other straight lines, make the alternate angles equal to one another, the two straight lines shall be parallel to one another.
Page 21 - The formula states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the base and altitude.