"Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge]……" — W. W. Rouse Ball
"Babbage ... gave the name to the [Cambridge] Analytical Society, which he stated was formed to advocate 'the principles of pure d-ism as opposed to the dot-age of the university.'"
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Newton took no exercise, indulged in no amusements, and worked incessantly, often spending eighteen or nineteen hours out of the…
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Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics. ...
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[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers…
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Foreshadowings of the principles and even of the language of [the infinitesimal] calculus can be found in the writings of…
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The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary…
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For other great mathematicians or philosophers, he [Gauss] used the epithets magnus, or clarus, or clarissimus; for Newton alone he…
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'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people…
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De Morgan was explaining to an actuary what was the chance that a certain proportion of some group of people…
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Biot, who assisted Laplace in revising it [The Mécanique Céleste] for the press, says that Laplace himself was frequently unable…
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