Inaugural Address: Delivered to the University of St. Andrews Feb. 1st 1867Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1867 - 99 páginas |
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... , the classical languages and mathematics . You did not wait till the last few years to establish a Natural Science and a Moral Science Tripos . Instruction in both those depart- ments was organized long ago : and your teachers of 10.
... , the classical languages and mathematics . You did not wait till the last few years to establish a Natural Science and a Moral Science Tripos . Instruction in both those depart- ments was organized long ago : and your teachers of 10.
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... Mathematics , and its application to astronomy and natural philosophy , are the most complete example of the discovery of truths by reasoning ; experimental science , of their discovery by direct observation . In all these cases we know ...
... Mathematics , and its application to astronomy and natural philosophy , are the most complete example of the discovery of truths by reasoning ; experimental science , of their discovery by direct observation . In all these cases we know ...
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... mathematics . It is chiefly from mathematics we realize the fact that there actually is a road to truth by means of reason- ing ; that anything real , and which will be found true when tried , can be arrived at by a mere opera- tion of ...
... mathematics . It is chiefly from mathematics we realize the fact that there actually is a road to truth by means of reason- ing ; that anything real , and which will be found true when tried , can be arrived at by a mere opera- tion of ...
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... Mathematics , pure and applied , are still the great conclusive example of what can be done by reason- ing . Mathematics also habituates us to several of the principal precautions for the safety of the pro- cess . Our first studies in ...
... Mathematics , pure and applied , are still the great conclusive example of what can be done by reason- ing . Mathematics also habituates us to several of the principal precautions for the safety of the pro- cess . Our first studies in ...
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... mathematics first gave us this conception ; applied mathematics extends it to the realm of physical nature . Applied mathematics shews us that not only the truths of abstract number and extension , but the external facts of the universe ...
... mathematics first gave us this conception ; applied mathematics extends it to the realm of physical nature . Applied mathematics shews us that not only the truths of abstract number and extension , but the external facts of the universe ...
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