 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1886 - 666 pages
...unerring in its appeal to our intelligence, as if it had been done yesterday at Berlin or Guttingen by one of our own contemporaries. In kindred language,...from which I have already quoted : — " Mathematics has steadily advanced from the time of the Greek geometers. Nothing is lost or wasted ; the achievements... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1883 - 880 pages
...mathematics is still on the text of the vast extent of modern mathematics. In conclusion, I would say that mathematics have steadily advanced from the time of...Nothing is lost or wasted. The achievements of Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius, are as admirable now as they were in their own days. Descartes' method... | |
 | 1884 - 784 pages
...which the other day Professor Cayley, in his admirable presidential address at Southport, said : " Mathematics have steadily advanced from the time of the Greek geometers. Nothing has been lost or wasted. The achievements of Euclid, Archimedes, or Apollonius are admirable now, as... | |
 | alfred c. pope, m.d., and d. dyce brown, m.a., m.d. - 1884 - 968 pages
...which the other day Professor Cayley, in his admirable presidential address at Southport, said : " Mathematics have steadily advanced from the time of the Greek geometers. Nothing has been lost or wasted. The achievements of Euclid, Archimedes, or Apollonius are admirable now, as... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1886 - 884 pages
...unerring in its appeal to our intelligence, as if it had been done yestcrdiy at Berlin or Gottingen by one of our own contemporaries. In kindred language,...from which I have already quoted : — " Mathematics has steadily advanced from the time of the Greek geometers. Nothing is lost or wasted ; the achievements... | |
 | Arthur Cayley - 1896 - 676 pages
...still speaking on the text of the vast extent of modern mathematics. In conclusion I would say that mathematics have steadily advanced from the time of...Nothing is lost or wasted ; the achievements of Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are as admirable now as they were in their own days. Descartes' method of... | |
 | Arthur Cayley - 1896 - 663 pages
...still speaking on the text of the vast extent of modern mathematics. In conclusion I would say that mathematics have steadily advanced from the time of...Nothing is lost or wasted ; the achievements of Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are as admirable now as they were in their own days. Descartes' method of... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman - 1898 - 348 pages
...unerring in its appeal to our intelligence, as if it had been done yesterday at Berlin or Gottingen by one of our own contemporaries." In kindred language,...this side of the Atlantic, in which he had been a teacher and a guest, thus concluded the address from which I have already quoted : Mathematics have... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman - 1898 - 340 pages
...let us hope, of the Sylvestrian school upon this side of the Atlantic, in which he had been a teacher and a guest, thus concluded the address from which...Nothing is lost or wasted; the achievements of Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are as admirable now as they were in their own days. Descartes's method... | |
 | 1883 - 1060 pages
...mathematics is still on the text of the vast extent of modern mathematics. In conclusion I would say that mathematics have steadily advanced from the time of...Nothing is lost or wasted; the achievements of Euclid, Archimedes, and Apollonius are as admirable now as they were in their own days. Descartes' method of... | |
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Mathematics have steadily advanced from the time of the Greek geometers. Nothing is lost or wasted ; the achievements of Euclid, Archimedes and Apollonius are as admirable now as they were in their own days. Descartes' method of co-ordinates is a possession... 
