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What a glorious title, Nature, a veritable stroke of genius to have hit upon. It is more than a cosmos, more than…
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Chemistry has the same quickening and suggestive influence upon the algebraist as a visit to the Royal Academy, or the old masters…
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May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason?
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It seems to be expected of every pilgrim up the slopes of the mathematical Parnassus, that he will at some point or…
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I know, indeed, and can conceive of no pursuit so antagonistic to the cultivation of the oratorical faculty ... as the study…
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...There is no study in the world which brings into more harmonious action all the faculties of the mind than [mathematics], ...…
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The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious…
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Time was when all the parts of the subject were dissevered, when algebra, geometry, and arithmetic either lived apart or kept up…
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The theory of ramification is one of pure colligation, for it takes no account of magnitude or position; geometrical lines are used,…
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So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct…
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The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of…
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The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.
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As I walked up the imposing steps of the Royal Academy, I came fact to face with Alwen Hughes. She looked just…
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