It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of the smallest possible utility. — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and the one whose four ground-rules are taught us almost in infancy and reappear in the… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted to make)… — Henry John Stephen Smith Copy Share Image
