Mathematics Sentence Examples

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  • You will be glad to hear that I enjoy Mathematics now.

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  • With this was included mathematics, astronomy and astrology, and even the magic arts.

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  • Of more general interest, however, are his labours in pure mathematics, which appear for the most part in Crelle's Journal from 1828 to 1858.

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  • Each problem was something unique; the elements of transition from one to another were wanting; and the next step which mathematics had to make was to find some method of reducing, for instance, all curves to a common notation.

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  • He divides geography into The Spherical Part, or that for the study of which mathematics alone is required, and The Topical Part, or the description of the physical relations of parts of the earth's surface, preferring this division to that favoured by the ancient geographers - into general and special.

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  • The former was professor of mathematics at Bologna, and published, among other works, a treatise on the infinitesimal calculus.

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  • His knowledge of the higher mathematics was acquired by his own unaided efforts after he had left the college.

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  • After taking his degree he wavered between classics and mathematics, but finally chose the latter.

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  • At Leipzig, Göttingen and Halle he studied for four years, ultimately devoting himself to mathematics and astronomy.

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  • Not until the age of seventeen did he attack the higher mathematics, and his progress was much retarded by the want of efficient help. When about sixteen years of age he became assistant-master in a private school at Doncaster, and he maintained himself to the end of his life in one grade or other of the scholastic profession.

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  • Scarcely any member of the Arabian circle of the sciences, including theology, philology, mathematics, astronomy, physics and music, was left untouched by the treatises of Avicenna, many of which probably varied little, except in being commissioned by a different patron and having a different form or extent.

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  • Higher education is represented by the provincial university, which teaches science and mathematics, holds examinations, distributes scholarships, and grants degrees in all subjects.

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  • As I have said before, I had no aptitude for mathematics; the different points were not explained to me as fully as I wished.

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  • He began life as a clerk, but, obtaining an appointment to a cadetship at West Point in 1825, he graduated there in 1829, and acted as assistant professor of mathematics 1829-1832.

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  • He was then called to the bar, but in 1836 became professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Cincinnati College.

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  • His taste for mathematics early developed itself; and he acquired Latin that he might study Newton's Principia.

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  • He was offered, but declined, the professorship of mathematics and astronomy at Harvard.

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  • Roger Bacon, his pupil, speaks highly of his attainments in theology and mathematics.

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  • He was then appointed to the ordinary chair of mathematics successively at Basel (1863), Tubingen (1865) and Leipzig (1868).

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  • In mathematics he was twenty-fourth wrangler, Isaac Todhunter being senior.

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  • Though he never became either a scholar or a mathematician, he did enough accurate work to be placed in the honorary fourth class both in classics and in mathematics.

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  • This view involves the denial of force as a cause, and the assertion that all we know about force is that the acceleration of one mass depends on that of another, as in mathematics a function depends on a variable; and that even Newton's third law of motion is merely a description of the fact that two material points determine in one another, without reciprocally causing, opposite accelerations.

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  • This being so, he finds in mathematics two kinds of transcendence - real, where the transcendent, though not actual in experience, can become partly so, e.g.

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  • Might not mathematics be a purely imaginary science?

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  • Chinese mathematics was, like their language, very concise.

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  • Rice, Adrian, 'What makes a great mathematics teacher?

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  • The Singapore math method features a unique approach to mathematics.

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  • Neither mathematics itself, nor any branch or set of branches of mathematics, can be regarded as an isolated science.

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  • As to the teaching of algebra, see references under Arithmetic to works on the teaching of elementary mathematics.

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  • The Romans, who succeeded the Greeks as the chief civilized power in Europe, failed to set store on their literary and scientific treasures; mathematics was all but neglected; and beyond a few improvements in arithmetical computations, there are no material advances to be recorded.

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  • The fame of this astronomer and mathematician rests on his work, the Aryabhattiyam, the third chapter of which is devoted to mathematics.

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  • It is of great interest to the historical student, for it exhibits the influence of Greek science upon Indian mathematics at a period prior to Aryabhatta.

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  • Moritz Cantor has suggested that at one time there existed two schools, one in sympathy with the Greeks, the other with the Hindus; and that, although the writings of the latter were first studied, they were rapidly discarded for the more perspicuous Grecian methods, so that, among the later Arabian writers, the Indian methods were practically forgotten and their mathematics became essentially Greek in character.

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  • Mathematics was more or less ousted from the academic curricula by the philosophical inquiries of the schoolmen, and it was only after an interval of nearly three centuries that a worthy successor to Leonardo appeared.

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  • In it he mentions many earlier writers from whom he had learnt the science, and although it contains very little that cannot be found in Leonardo's work, yet it is especially noteworthy for the systematic employment of symbols, and the manner in which it reflects the state of mathematics in Europe during this period.

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  • These works are the earliest printed books on mathematics.

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  • The renaissance of mathematics was thus effected in Italy, and it is to that country that the leading developments of the following century were due.

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  • The 17th century is a famous epoch in the progress of science, and the mathematics in no way lagged behind.

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  • Notable service was also rendered by Augustus de Morgan, who applied logical analysis to the laws of mathematics.

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  • He devoted his youth to the study of history, chronology, mathematics, astronomy, philosophy and medicine.

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  • Other works of his, chiefly on mathematics and astronomy, are still in manuscript only.

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  • Born on the 15th of February 1514, he studied at Tiguri with Oswald Mycone, and afterwards went to Wittenberg where he was appointed professor of mathematics in 1537.

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  • He projected numerous other works, as is shown by a letter to Peter Ramus in 1568, which Adrian Romanus inserted in the preface to his Idea of Mathematics.

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  • Borrell entrusted him to the care of a Bishop Hatto, under whose instruction Gerbert made great progress in mathematics.

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  • He soon distinguished himself as a student and made rapid progress, especially in mathematics.

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  • As a politician Fourier achieved uncommon success, but his fame chiefly rests on his strikingly original contributions to science and mathematics.

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  • Here Jacques Davy received his education, being taught Latin and mathematics by his father, and learning Greek and Hebrew and the philosophy then in vogue.

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  • As a foundation his education must be thorough in the natural and physical sciences and mathematics.

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  • These miners' schools (Bergschule, ecoles des mineurs) give elementary instruction in chemistry, physics, mechanics, mineralogy, geology and mathematics and drawing, as well as in such details of the art of mining as will best supplement the practical information already acquired in underground work.

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  • The invention of the mechanical air-pump is generally attributed to Otto von Guericke, consul of Magdeburg, who exhibited his instrument in 1654; it was first described in 1657 by Gaspar Schott, professor of mathematics at Wurttemberg, in his NI echanica hydraulico-pneumatica, and afterwards (in 1672) by Guericke in his Experimenta nova Magdeburgica de vacus spatia.

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  • Trained for the scholastic profession, he was appointed assistant professor at the Academy of Paris in 1831, professor of mathematics at Lyons in 1834, rector of the Academy of Grenoble in 1835, inspector-general of studies in 1838, rector of the Academy of Dijon and honorary inspectorgeneral in 1854, retiring in 1862.

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  • Cournot was the first who, with a competent knowledge of both subjects, endeavoured to apply mathematics to the treatment of economic questions.

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  • Notwithstanding Cournot's just reputation as a writer on mathematics, the Recherches made little impression.

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  • The development of astronomy implies considerable progress in mathematics; it is not surprising, therefore, that the Babylonians should have invented an extremely simple method of ciphering or have discovered the convenience of the duodecimal system.

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  • The first forty-two years of his life are obscure; we learn from incidental remarks of his that he was a Sunnite, probably according to the IIanifite rite, well versed in all the branches of natural science, in medicine, mathematics, astronomy and astrology, in.

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  • In natural science, geography, natural history, mathematics and astronomy he took a genuine interest.

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  • In1824-1828he was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Brown University, acting as president in 1826-1827; in1828-1831was president of Transylvania University, Lexington, Kentucky; and in1831-1837was president of the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, where he organized the Alabama Female Athenaeum.

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  • The study of mathematics learned from Greece and India was developed by Arabian writers, who in turn became the teachers of Europe in the 16th century.

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  • The university, founded in 1338, has faculties of law, medicine, mathematics and philosophy and literature, and is to this day one of the most famous in Italy.

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  • All these have faculties of letters and law, and San Marcos has in addition faculties of theology, medicine, mathematics and science, philosophy and administrative and political economy.

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  • Godin, a member of the French commission for measuring an arc of the meridian near Quito, became professor of mathematics at San Marcos in 1750; and the botanical expeditions sent out from Spain gave further zest to scientific research.

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  • Thence he journeyed to Bagdad, where he learned Arabic and gave himself to the study of mathematics, medicine and philosophy, especially the works of Aristotle.

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  • Taylor's Methodus Incrementorum Directa et Inversa (London, 1715) added a new branch to the higher mathematics, now designated the " calculus of finite differences."

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  • Grant was the best horseman of his class, and took a respectable place in mathematics, but at his graduation in 1843 he only ranked twenty-first in a class of thirty-nine.

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  • To the great dissatisfaction of his parents, he resolved to return to Paris (1816), and to earn his living there by giving lessons in mathematics.

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  • This and two other engagements as a teacher of mathematics secured him an income of some £400 a year.

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  • They are thus the double key of The double Comte's systematization of the philosophy of all the key of sciences from mathematics to physiology, and his positive analysis of social evolution, which is the base of philo= sociology.

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  • He worked hard at his classical lessons, and supplemented the ordinary business of the school by studying mathematics in the holidays.

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  • He holds a high place in the history of humanism by the foundation of the College de France; he did not found an actual college, but after much hesitation instituted in 1530, at the instance of Guillaume Bude (Budaeus), Lecteurs royaux, who in spite of the opposition of the Sorbonne were granted full liberty to teach Hebrew, Greek, Latin, mathematics, &c. The humanists Bude, Jacques Colin and Pierre Duchatel were the king's intimates, and Clement Marot was his favourite poet.

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  • In 1724 he was offered the chair of mathematics in the university of Upsala, which he declined, on the ground that it was a mistake for mathematicians to be limited to theory.

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  • After acting for a short time as assistant in Harvard College Observatory, he was appointed assistant professor of mathematics in the U.S. Naval Academy in 1866, and in the following year became director of the Allegheny Observatory at Pittsburg, a position which he held until his selection in 1887 as secretary of the Smithsonian.

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  • At Oxford, as at Eton, he read literature from natural liking, and he paid some attention to mathematics.

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  • While he taught during the day at Stote's Hall, he studied mathematics in the evening at a school in Newcastle.

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  • In 1773 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and in the following year he was elected F.R.S.

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  • After his Tables of the Products and Powers of Numbers, 1781, and his Mathematical Tables, 1785, he issued, for the use of the Royal Military Academy, in 1787 Elements of Conic Sections, and in 1798 his Course of Mathematics.

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  • His Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, a valuable contribution to scientific biography, was published in 1795 (2nd ed., 1815), and the four volumes of Recreations in Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, mostly a translation from the French, in 1803.

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  • Here he heard Luther preach, but was more attracted by Melanchthon, who interested him in mathematics and astrology.

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  • This practice continued to prevail till the 17th century, when, at the instance of the Jesuit Schall, president of the tribunal of mathematics, they adopted the European method of dividing the day into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and each minute into sixty seconds.

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  • In science and theology, mathematics and poetry, metaphysics and law, he is a competent and always a fair if not a profound critic. The bent of his own mind is manifest in his treatment of pure literature and of political speculation - which seems to be inspired with stronger personal interest and a higher sense of power than other parts of his work display.

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  • In the course of a century eight of its members successfully cultivated various branches of mathematics, and contributed powerfully to the advance of science.

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  • While at Geneva he taught a blind girl several branches of science, and also how to write; and this led him to publish A Method of Teaching Mathematics to the Blind.

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  • Chemistry, as well as mathematics, seems to have been the object of his early attention; and in the year 1690 he published a dissertation on effervescence and fermentation.

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  • His independent discoveries in mathematics are numerous and important.

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  • His inaugural discourse was on the "new analysis," which he so successfully applied in investigating various problems both in pure and applied mathematics.

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  • It is, however, his works in pure mathematics that are the permanent monuments of his fame.

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  • Meanwhile the study of mathematics was not neglected, as appears not only from his giving instruction in geometry to his younger brother Daniel, but from his writings on the differential, integral, and exponential calculus, and from his father considering him, at the age of twenty-one, worthy of receiving the torch of science from his own hands.

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  • Both were appointed at the same time professors of mathematics in the academy of St Petersburg; but this office Nicolas enjoyed for little more then eight months.

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  • After his'return,though only twenty-four years of age, he was invited to become president of an academy then projected at Genoa; but, declining this honour, he was, in the following year, appointed professor of mathematics at St Petersburg.

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  • He studied law and mathematics, and, of ter travelling in France,was for five years professor of eloquence in the university of his native city.

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  • On the death of his father he succeeded him as professor of mathematics.

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  • In Italy he formed a friendship with Lorgna, professor of mathematics at Verona, and one of the founders of the Societe' Italiana for the encouragement of the sciences.

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  • His fame now rests, however, entirely upon his achievements in mathematics.

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  • He then devoted himself with astonishing ardour to mathematics, chemistry, natural history, technology and even political economy.

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  • In 1842 he took a "double-first" and was elected fellow of B alliol, and lecturer in mathematics and logic. Four years later he took orders, and with the aim of helping forward the education of the very poor, he accepted the headship of Kneller Hall, a college which the government formed for the training of masters of workhouse and penal schools.

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  • He graduated at Harvard in 1817, was tutor in mathematics there in 1820-1821, was admitted to practice in the court of common pleas in December 1821, and began the practice of law in Newburyport, Mass., in 1824.

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  • In this way the principle of continuity, which is the basis of the method of Fluxions and the whole of modern mathematics, may be applied to the analysis of problems connected with material bodies by assuming them, for the purpose of this analysis, to be homogeneous.

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  • Of his sons, Thomas (1616-1680) was born at Copenhagen, where, after a long course of study in various universities of Europe, he was appointed successively professor of mathematics (1647) and anatomy (1648).

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  • Another son, Erasmus (1625-1698), born at Roskilde, spent ten years in visiting England, Holland, Germany and Italy, and filled the chairs of mathematics and medicine at Copenhagen.

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  • The sciences of mathematics, astronomy and medicine were also cultivated with assiduity and success at Alexandria, but they can scarcely be said to have their origin there, or in any strict sense to form a part of the peculiarly Alexandrian literature.

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  • Alexandria continued to be celebrated as a school of mathematics and science long after the Christian era.

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  • In 1827 he became extraordinary and in 1829 ordinary professor of mathematics at Konigsberg, and this chair he filled till 1842, when he visited Italy for a few months to recruit his health.

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  • It was in analytical development that Jacobi's peculiar power mainly lay, and he made many important contributions of this kind to other departments of mathematics, as a glance at the long list of papers that were published by him in Crelle's Journal and elsewhere from 1826 onwards will sufficiently indicate.

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  • In 1836 he entered Marischal College, and came under the influence of John Cruickshank, professor of mathematics, Thomas Clark, professor of chemistry, and William Knight, professor of natural philosophy.

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  • His college career was distinguished, especially in mental philosophy, mathematics and physics.

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  • In 1845 he was appointed professor of mathematics and natural philosophy in the Andersonian University of Glasgow.

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  • This classification, though it is of high value in the clearing up of our conceptions of the essential contrasted with the accidental, the relation of genus, differentia and definition and so forth, is of more significance in connexion with abstract sciences, especially mathematics, than for the physical sciences.

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  • This being so, not only were physics and mathematics impossible as sciences of necessary objective truth, but our apparent consciousness of a permanent self and object alike must be delusive.

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  • The students number some 750, and there are five faculties of theology, law, medicine, mathematics and science, and letters.

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  • His great reputation and the influence of Sir William Boswell, the English resident, with the states-general procured his election in 1643 to the chair of mathematics in Amsterdam, whence he removed in 1646, on the invitation of the prince of Orange, to Breda, where he remained till 1652.

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  • It might, therefore, be described as that branch of mathematics which deals with formulae for calculating the numerical measurements of curved lengths, areas and volumes, in terms of numerical data which determine these measurements.

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  • Vitality can only be retained by close association with more abstract branches of mathematics.

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  • He was educated at the university of Moscow, and in 1859 became professor of mathematics in the university of St Petersburg, a position from which he retired in 1880.

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  • Having studied literature, he afterwards devoted himself entirely to mathematics and natural philosophy.

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  • He became professor of philosophy, mathematics, and Oriental languages at Wurzburg, whence he was driven (1631) by the troubles of the Thirty Years' War to Avignon.

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  • Through the influence of Cardinal Barberini he next (1635) settled in Rome, where for eight years he taught mathematics in the Collegio Romano, but ultimately resigned this appointment to study hieroglyphics and other archaeological subjects.

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  • His voluminous writings in philology, natural history, physics and mathematics often accordingly have a good deal of the historical interest which attaches to pioneering work, however imperfectly performed; otherwise they now take rank as curiosities of literature merely.

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  • Next follow chapters on the literary renaissance of the nation, its progress in art, mathematics, chemistry and natural science; the magnificent development of agriculture, modern industry, commerce and finance; and in particular its flourishing selfgovernment, " which will be exercised in the fullest freedom," and in which " the communal organization embodies in the highest degree the conception of self-government " (p. 234), and " the independent sphere of activity unlimited in its fundamental principle " (p. 235) in that " State control is exercised seldom and discreetly " (p. 236).

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  • Varenius studied at the gymnasium of Hamburg (1640-42), and at Konigsberg (1643-45) and Leiden (1645-49) universities, where he devoted himself to mathematics and medicine, taking his medical degree at Leiden in 1649.

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  • In 181 9 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the athenaeum of Brussels; in 1828 he became lecturer at the newly created museum of science and literature, and he continued to hold that post until the museum was absorbed in the free university in 1834.

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  • In 1788 he entered the corps of noble cadets in the artillery and engineering department, where his ability, especially in mathematics, soon attracted attention.

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  • Despite extreme penury, he then continued to study indefatigably ancient and modern languages, history and literature, finally turning his attention to mathematics and astronomy.

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  • In 1613 he succeeded his father Rudolph Snell (1546-1613) as professor of mathematics in the university of Leiden.

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  • Soon afterwards he was appointed professor of mathematics in the Ecole Militaire at Paris, and he was afterwards professor in the Ecole Normale.

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  • It will thus be seen that Legendre's works have placed him in the very foremost rank in the widely distinct subjects of elliptic functions, theory of numbers, attractions, and geodesy, and have given him a conspicuous position in connexion with the integral calculus and other branches of mathematics.

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  • He studied theology, and was for some years a dissenting minister at Tonbridge, but on the death of his father he devoted himself to the congenial study of mathematics.

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  • Meanwhile, at Oxford a proposal practically making Greek optional with all undergraduates was rejected, in November 1902, by 189 votes to 166; a preliminary proposal permitting students of mathematics or natural science to offer one or more modern languages in lieu of Greek was passed by 164 to 162 in February 1904, but on the 29th of November the draft of a statute to this effect was thrown out by 200 to 164.

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  • The law of the 1st of May 1802 brought the lycees into existence, the subjects being, in Napoleon's own phrase, " mainly Latin and mathematics."

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  • In these schools the subjects of study included mathematics and natural sciences, geography and history, and modern languages (especially French), with riding, fencing and dancing; Latin assumed a subordinate place, and classical composition in prose or verse was not considered a sufficiently courtly accomplishment.

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  • The new gymnasium aimed at a wider education, in which literature was represented by Latin, Greek and German, by the side of mathematics and natural science, history and religion.

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  • In 1875 Wiese was succeeded by Bonitz, the eminent Aristotelian scholar, who in 1849 had introduced mathematics and natural science into the schools of Austria, and had substituted the wide reading of classical authors for the prevalent practice of speaking and writing Latin.

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  • In 1788 Pfaff became professor of mathematics in Helmstedt, and so continued until that university was abolished in 1810.

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  • From that time till his death on the 21st of April 1825 he held the chair of mathematics at Halle.

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  • His brother, Johann Wilhelm Andreas Pfaff (1774-1835), was professor of pure and applied mathematics successively at Dorpat, Nuremberg, Wurzburg and Erlangen.

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  • At Harrow he obtained in 1842 a Lyon scholarship, and at Oxford in 1845 a first-class in mathematics, in 1846 the junior and in 1847 the senior university mathematical scholarship. In 1846 he left Oxford to take his father's place in the business, in which he was engaged until his death.

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  • His papers, numbering over 100, were published principally in the Philosophical Transactions, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society and Crelle, and one or two in the Comptes rendus of the Paris Academy; a list of them, arranged according to the several journals in which they originally appeared, with short notes upon the less familiar memoirs, is given in Nature, xxvii.

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  • His Son, Johann Ernst Immanuel (1725-1778), studied Semitic languages at Jena, and also natural science and mathematics.

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  • He graduated in 1865 at the Lawrence Scientific School of Harvard, where for the next two years he was a teacher of mathematics.

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  • At Glasgow his favourite studies had been mathematics and natural philosophy; but at Oxford he appears to have devoted himself almost entirely to moral and political science and to ancient and modern languages.

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  • At the age of eleven he was entered as a student at St Andrews, where he devoted himself almost exclusively to mathematics.

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  • In May 1803, after attending further courses of lectures in Edinburgh, and acting as assistant to the professor of mathematics at St Andrews, he was ordained as minister of Kilmany in Fifeshire, about 9 m.

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  • In 1805 he became a candidate for the vacant professorship of mathematics at Edinburgh, but was unsuccessful.

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  • Between John Craig and John Napier a friendship sprang up which may have been due to their common taste for mathematics.

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  • Now Mark Napier found in the library of the university of Edinburgh a mathematical work bearing a sentence in Latin which he translates, " To Doctor John Craig of Edinburgh, in Scotland, a most illustrious man, highly gifted with various and excellent learning, professor of medicine, and exceedingly skilled in the mathematics, Tycho Brahe bath sent this gift, and with his own hand written this at Uraniburg, 2d November 1588."

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  • The introduction of infinite series into mathematics effected a great change in the modes of calculation and the treatment of the subject.

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  • His early mastery of classical literature led him to the study of classic monuments in classic lands, while his equally conspicuous talent for mathematics gave him the laws of form and proportion in architectural design.

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  • A vacancy among the fellows is filled up by the provost and a select number of the fellows, after examination comprised in five principal courses, mathematics, experimental science, classics, mental and moral science and Hebrew.

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  • The scholars on the foundation (or "of the House") are chosen from among the undergraduates, for merit in classics, mathematics or experimental science.

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  • From 1813 to 1820 he was extraordinary professor of astronomy and mathematics at the new university and observer at the observatory, becoming in 1820 ordinary professor and director.

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  • John Casey, professor of mathematics at the Catholic university of Dublin, has given elementary demonstrations founded on the theory of similitude and coaxal circles which are reproduced in his Sequel to Euclid; an analytical solution by Gergonne is given in Salmon's Conic Sections.

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  • Such persons have flourished at all times in the history of mathematics; but the interest attaching to them is more psychological than mathematical.2 It is of recent years that the most important advances in the theory of circle-quadrature have been made.

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  • He had seen Cyrene from the sea, probably on his voyage from Puteoli to Alexandria, where he remained a long time, probably amassing materials, and studying astronomy and mathematics.

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  • But at any rate the process was gradual; and Aristotle was advanced in metaphysics, mathematics, physics, dialectics, rhetoric and poetics, before he became the founder of logic.

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  • Aristotle, who made this great discovery, must have had great difficulty in developing the new investigation of reasoning processes out of dialectic, rhetoric, poetics, grammar, metaphysics, mathematics, physics and ethics; and in disengaging it from other kinds of learning.

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  • Having completed his education at the university of Edinburgh, where he was distinguished in mathematics, Robert was induced to enter a banking-house in order to acquire a practical knowledge of business, but his ambition was really academic. In 1769 he gave up business pursuits and accepted the rectorship of Perth academy.

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  • For many years, however, by private arrangement with his colleague Professor Copland, Hamilton taught the class o £ mathematics.

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  • In each of these universities there are five faculties, namely, law, theology, medicine, science and mathematics, and literature and philosophy, the courses for which are respectively four, five, eight, and six or seven years for the two last named.

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  • Among the literary and scientific associations of Copenhagen may be mentioned the Danish Royal Society, founded in 1742, for the advancement of the sciences of mathematics, astronomy, natural philosophy, &c., by the publication of papers and essays; the Royal Antiquarian Society, founded in 1825, for diffusing a knowledge of Northern and Icelandic archaeology; the Society for the Promotion of Danish Literature, for the publication of works chiefly connected with the history of Danish literature; the Natural Philosophy Society; the Royal Agricultural Society; the Danish Church History Society; the Industrial Association, founded in 1838; the Royal Geographical Society, established in 1876; and several musical and other societies.

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  • John was educated at Leiden, and early displayed remarkable talents, more especially in mathematics and jurisprudence.

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  • The propositions of mathematics seem to be independent of this or that special fact of experience, and to remain unchanged even when the concrete matter of experience varies.

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  • Hume's theory of mathematics - the only one, perhaps, which is compatible with his fundamental principle of psychology - is a practical condemnation of his empirical theory of perception.

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  • He studied at Geneva, Leyden and Paris, before becoming (1700) professor of philosophy and mathematics at the academy of Lausanne, of which he was four times rector before 1724, when the theological disputes connected with the Consensus led him to accept a chair of philosophy and mathematics at Groningen.

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  • His scheme was first to work out, in a separate treatise De corpore, a systematic doctrine of Body, showing how physical phenomena were universally explicable in terms of motion, as motion or mechanical action was then (through Galileo and others) understood - the theory of motion being applied in the light of mathematical science, after quantity, the subject-matter of mathematics, had been duly considered in its place among the fundamental conceptions of philosophy, and a clear indication had been given, at first starting, of the logical ground and method of all philosophical inquiry.

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  • Taking up mathematics when not only his mind was already formed but his thoughts were crystallizing into a philosophical system, Hobbes had, in fact, never put himself to school and sought to work up gradually to the best knowledge of the time, but had been more anxious from the first to become himself an innovator with whatever insufficient means.

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  • All these controversial writings on mathematics and physics represent but one half of his activity after the age of p y g Years.

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  • Upon every subject that came within the sweep of his system, except mathematics and physics, his thoughts have been productive of thought.

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  • Pascal's work as a natural philosopher was not less remarkable than his discoveries in pure mathematics.

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  • He was educated at the university of Turin, where he qualified as an engineer and became a doctor of mathematics.

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  • He held many college offices, becoming successively lecturer in Greek (1651), mathematics (1653),andhumanity('655), praelector (1657), junior dean (1657), and college steward (1659 and 1660); and according to the habit of the time, he was accustomed to preach in his college chapel and also at Great St Mary's before the university, long before he took holy orders.

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  • Besides the subjects taught at the Azhar university, instruction is given in literature, mathematics and physical science.

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  • In later life, he gave up speculative thought and turned to scientific research, especially in mathematics, physics and astronomy.

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  • Though the wish was not gratified, she lived from that time in a retirement almost conventual, avoiding all society and devoting herself entirely to the study of mathematics.

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  • In 1804 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Lycee, in 1809 professor of analysis and mechanics, and in 1816 examiner at the Ecole Polytechnique.

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  • In addition to publishing a number of works on geometrical and mechanical subjects, Poinsot also contributed a number of papers on pure and applied mathematics to Lionville's Journal and other scientific periodicals.

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  • He cared little for any of the professors, except Sir John Leslie, from whom he learned some mathematics.

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  • He did not seek re-election in 1893, but devoted himself thenceforward to mathematics, helping to make known in France the theories of Giusto Bellavitis.

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  • He landed at Macao in 1610, and while waiting a favourable opportunity to penetrate into China busied himself for three years in teaching mathematics.

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  • His knowledge of mathematics caused him to be employed on the coast survey in 1834.

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  • He followed his father's trade, but found time to acquire a knowledge of Latin, Greek, mathematics, physics, anatomy and other subjects.

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  • His duties were light, and he employed his leisure in the study of philology, mathematics, philosophy, history, political economy, natural science and natural history, for which he made large collections.

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  • These names have in the mathematics tripos survived the procedure.

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  • A further distinction is important, especially in such subjects as mathematics or foreign languages, in which it is legitimate to ask what precise power on the part of a candidate the passing of an examination shall signify.

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  • Of recent years the Thesls thesis has been introduced into lower examinations; it is required for the master's degree at London in the case of internal students, in subjects other than mathematics (1910); both at Oxford and London, the B.Sc. degree, and at Cambridge the B.A.

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  • Having studied theology in the academy of the Moravian brethren at Niesky, and philosophy at Leipzig and Jena, he travelled for some time, and in 1806 became professor of philosophy and elementary mathematics at Heidelberg.

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  • In 1816 he was invited to Jena to fill the chair of theoretical philosophy (including mathematics and physics, and philosophy proper), and entered upon a crusade against the prevailing Romanticism.

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  • The grand-duke, however, continued to pay him his stipend, and in 1824 he was recalled to Jena as professor of mathematics and physics, receiving permission also to lecture on philosophy in his own rooms to a select number of students.

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  • The word was reintroduced in modern philosophy probably by Rene Descartes (or by his followers) who, in the search for a definite self-evident principle as the basis of a new philosophy, naturally turned to the familiar science of mathematics.

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  • This collection, alphabetically arranged, comprised annotations on classical authors, passages from newspapers, treatises on morals and mathematics from the standard works of the period.

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  • Besides philosophy, he once at least lectured on mathematics.

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  • John is said to have owed his education in philosophy, mathematics and theology to an Italian monk named Cosmas, whom Sergius had redeemed from a band of captive slaves.

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  • De Morgan was one of his colleagues, but he resigned in 1840 in order to become professor of mathematics in the university of Virginia.

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  • But he failed to obtain either of two posts - the professorships of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy and of geometry in Gresham College - for which he applied in 1854, though he was elected to the former in the following year on the death of his successful competitor.

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  • Three years later he was appointed professor of mathematics in the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, stipulating for an annual salary of $5000, to be paid in gold.

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  • At Baltimore he gave an enormous impetus to the study of the higher mathematics in America, and during the time he was there he contributed to the American Journal of Mathematics, of which he was the first editor, no less than thirty papers, some of great length, dealing mainly with modern algebra, the theory of numbers, theory of partitions and universal algebra.

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  • His early life was occupied in mastering the curriculum of theology, jurisprudence, mathematics, medicine and philosophy, under the approved teachers of the time.

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  • He studied mathematics and physics in his native town, Groningen, where in 1879 he took his doctor's degree on presenting a dissertation entitled New Proofs of the Earth's Rotation.

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  • That which is object of thought cannot be outside consciousness; just as in mathematics -V - is an unreal quantity, so "things-in-themselves" are ex hypothesi outside consciousness, i.e.

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  • Complete or perfect knowledge is confined to the domain of pure thought, to logic and mathematics.

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  • Jefferson carried with him from the college of William and Mary at Williamsburg, in his twentieth year, a good knowledge of Latin, Greek and French (to which he soon added Spanish, Italian and Anglo-Saxon), and a familiarity with the higher mathematics and natural sciences only possessed, at his age, by men who have a rare natural taste and ability for those studies.

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  • Notwithstanding his many official duties, he found time to publish more than three hundred works, several of them extensive treatises, and many of them memoirs dealing with the most abstruse branches of pure and applied mathematics.

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  • There are few branches of mathematics to which he did not contribute something, but it was in the application of mathematics to physical subjects that his greatest services to science were performed.

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  • Born at Edinburgh in 1710 and originally educated for the church, Short attracted the attention of Maclaurin, professor of mathematics at the university, who permitted him about 1732 to make use of his rooms in the college buildings for experiments in the construction of telescopes.

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  • At an early age he manifested a preference for the study of mathematics, but this was gradually superseded by an interest in natural science, which led him ultimately to the study of medicine.

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  • The university, in Calle Uruguay, has faculties of law, medicine, letters, mathematics, engineering, and some minor groups of studies, including agriculture and veterinary science.

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  • His father, Matthew Stewart (1715-1785), was professor of mathematics in the university of Edinburgh (1747-1772).

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  • Dugald Stewart was educated in Edinburgh at the high school and the university, where he read mathematics and moral philosophy under Adam Ferguson.

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  • After acting three years as his father's substitute he was elected professor of mathematics in conjunction with him in 1775.

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  • To say, however, that Clarke simply confused mathematics and morals by justifying the moral criterion on a mathematical basis is a mistake.

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  • He caused works on mathematics, astronomy, medicine and philosophy to be translated from the Greek, and founded in Bagdad a kind of academy, called the "House of Science," with a library and an observatory.

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  • In 1828, after a year's special preparation, young Fremont entered the junior class of the college of Charleston, and here displayed marked ability, especially in mathematics; but his irregular attendance and disregard of college discipline led to his expulsion from the institution, which, however, conferred upon him a degree in 1836.

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  • In 1833 he was appointed teacher of mathematics on board the sloop of war "Natchez," and was so engaged during a cruise along the South American coast which was continued for about two and a half years.

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  • Soon after returning to Charleston he was appointed professor of mathematics in the United States navy, but he chose instead to serve as assistant engineer of a survey undertaken chiefly for the purpose of finding a pass through the mountains for a proposed railway from Charleston to Cincinnati.

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  • The founder of logic anticipated the latest logic of science, when he recognized, not only the deduction of mathematics, but also the experience of facts followed by deductive explanations of their causes in physics.

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  • On the whole, however, Aristotle, Bacon and Mill, purged from their errors, form one empirical school, gradually growing by adapting itself to the advance of science; a school in which Aristotle was most influenced by Greek deductive Mathematics, Bacon by the rise of empirical physics at the Renaissance, and Mill by the Newtonian combination of empirical facts and mathematical principles in the Principia.

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  • In his definite classification of the sciences,'" into First Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics, it has no place.

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  • Its axioms, such as the law of contradiction, belong to first philosophy, but the doctrine as a whole falls neither under 'this head nor yet, though the thought has been entertained, under that of mathematics, since logic orders mathematical reasoning as well as all other.

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  • In the sphere of abstract form, mathematics, the like may be allowed, abstraction being treated as an elimination of matter from the cn voXov by one act.

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  • But the divorce of science of nature from mathematics, the failure of biological inquiry to reach so elementary a conception as that of the nerves, the absence of chemistry from the circle of the sciences, disappointed the promise of the dawn and the relative achievement of the noon-day.

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  • In scientific method, then, it could but advance, provided physics and mathematics did not again fail of accord.

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  • In the mathematics we determine complex problems by a construction link by link from axioms and simple data clearly and distinctly conceived.

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  • The reality of mathematics, equally with that of the ideals of morals drawn from within, does not extend to the " ectypes " of the outer world.

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  • Mill holds even the ideas of mathematics to be hypothetical, and in theory knows nothing of a non-enumerative or non-associative universal.

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  • Leibnitz's treatment of the primary principles among truths of reason as identities, and his examples drawn inter alia from the " first principles " of mathematics, influenced Kant by antagonism.

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  • The clue to the discovery of transcendental conditions Kant finds in the existence of judgments, most manifest in mathematics and in the pure science of nature, which are certain, yet not trifling, necessary and yet not reducible to identities, synthetic therefore and a priori, and so accounted for neither by Locke nor by Leibnitz.

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  • In 1904 Alexander Macfarlane published a Bibliography of Quaternions and allied systems of Mathematics for the International Association for promoting the study of Quaternions and allied systems of Mathematics (Dublin University Press); the pamphlet contains 86 pages.

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  • These works are lost; but their titles, combined with expressions in the letters of Synesius, who consulted her about the construction of an astrolabe and a hydroscope, indicate that she devoted herself specially to astronomy and mathematics.

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  • Thus PS (or OR) is the abscissa of P. The word appears for the first time in a Latin work written by Stefano degli Angeli (1623-1697), a professor of mathematics in Rome.

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  • North of this and extending to the boundary of the 1 The actual surveying and laying out of the city was done by Andrew Ellicott (1754-1820), a civil engineer, who had been employed in many boundary disputes, who became surveyor-general of the United States in 1792, and from 1812 until his death was professor of mathematics at the United States Military Academy at West Point.

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  • In 1701 he resigned his living to become deputy at Cambridge to Sir Isaac Newton, `Thom two years later he succeeded as Lucasian professor of mathematics.

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  • In 1861 he became professor of mathematics in the United States navy, and was put in charge of the great 26-in.

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  • In 1884 he became professor of mathematics and astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University, continuing, however, to reside at Washingtion.

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  • He was also editor of the American Journal of Mathematics for many years.

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  • His education was only elementary and very defective, except in mathematics, in which he was largely self-taught; and although at his death he left a considerable library, he was never an assiduous reader.

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  • These acts helped greatly to discredit the Moderate party, of whose spirit they were the outcome; and that party further injured their standing in the country by attacking Leslie, afterwards Sir John Leslie, on frivolous grounds - a phrase he had used about Hume's view of causation - when he applied for the chair of mathematics in Edinburgh.

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  • In the mathematics there is no reason why it should not be employed.

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  • Magee was appointed professor of mathematics and senior fellow of Trinity in 1800, but in 1812 he resigned, and undertook the charge of the livings of Cappagh, Co.

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  • The faculties are four - philosophy and history, philology, mathematics and natural sciences, and jurisprudence.

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  • He soon showed mathematical powers, but these were not fostered by the careful training mathematicians usually receive, and it may be said that in after years his attention was directed to the higher mathematics mainly by force of circumstances.

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  • His investigations occupied almost the whole field of science, including physiology, physiological optics, physiological acoustics, chemistry, mathematics, electricity and magnetism, meteorology and theoretical mechanics.

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  • In 1853 be became professor of mathematics at the university, and in 1860 professor of mineralogy in the school of applied engineering.

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  • He graduated at the university of Pennsylvania in 1835, and was assistant professor of mathematics (1836-1837), professor of mathematics (1837-1840), and professor of Latin and Greek (1840-1848) in Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

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  • In mathematics, an expression of the form a, 1/2 a2 b a 5 ..., where a 1, a 2, a 3,.

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  • Shapur I., who appears to have, had a broader outlook, added to the religious writings a collection of scientific treatises on medicine, asticonomy, mathematics, philosophy, zoology, &c., partly from Indian and Greek sources.

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  • Showing decided military tastes Francois Arago was sent to the municipal college of Perpignan, where he began to study mathematics in preparation for the entrance examination of the polytechnic school.

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  • He received instruction in mathematics from Hobbes, and was early initiated into all the vices of the age by Buckingham and Percy.

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  • Having become senior moderator in mathematics and a fellow of Trinity, he took holy orders, and was appointed regius professor of divinity in Dublin University in 1866, a position which he retained until 1888, when he was chosen provost of Trinity College.

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  • He now began to occupy himself with scientific pursuits, and gave some attention to mathematics as well as to chemistry and mineralogy; but, having met with Adam Smith's great work, he threw himself with ardour into the study of political economy.

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  • Many of them were well versed in Aristotelian and Arabic philosophy, in astronomy, mathematics, and especially in medicine.

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  • The complete catalogue may be roughly arranged under three heads - (1) belles lettres, (2) history and antiquities, (3) technical treatises on philosophy, law, grammar, mathematics, philology and other subjects.

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  • Residing at Paris as a teacher of mathematics, he became a disciple of Comte, who appointed him his literary executor.

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  • He studied mathematics, civil and military architecture, and astronomy, and became associate of the Academie des Sciences, professor of geometry, secretary to the Academy of Architecture and fellow of the Royal Society of London.

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  • Greek, and studying mathematics and other sciences.

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  • From 1828 to 1839 Babbage was Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge.

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  • Until the abandonment of this experiment in 1847, Ripley was its leader, cheerfully taking upon himself all kinds of tasks, teaching mathematics and philosophy in the school, milking cows and attending to other bucolic duties, and after June 1845 editing the weekly Harbinger, an organ of "association," which he continued to edit in New York from 1847 until it was discontinued in 1849.

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  • In 1871 he was appointed professor of mathematics at University College, London, and in 1874 became fellow of the Royal Society.

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  • This diversion from his original bent gave him an inclination to the career of civil and mechanical engineering; and in the spring of 1826 he was elected by the trustees of the Albany Academy to the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy in that institution.

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  • Beginning with metaphysics and ethics and passing on to mathematics, he turned to chemistry at the end of 17 9 7, and within a few months of reading Nicholson's and Lavoisier's treatises on that science had produced a new theory of light and heat.

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  • He was called to the bar in 1849, and remained at the bar fourteen years, till 1863, when he was elected to the new Sadlerian chair of pure mathematics in the university of Cambridge.

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  • He wrote upon nearly every subject of pure mathematics, and also upon theoretical dynamics and spherical and physical astronomy.

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  • Another memoir of applied mathematics is the Dioptrische Untersuchungen (1840).

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  • Of the memoirs in pure mathematics, comprised for the most part in vols.

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  • He graduated in 1826, taking a first class in mathematics and a second in classics.

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  • Kirchhoff's contributions to mathematical physics were numerous and important, his strength lying in his powers of stating a new physical problem in terms of mathematics, not merely in working out the solution after it had been so formulated.

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  • At this time Madame Kovalevsky was at Stockholm, where Gustaf Mittag Leffler, also a pupil of Weierstrass, who had been recently appointed to the chair of mathematics at the newly founded university, had procured for her a post as lecturer.

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  • Henceforth the Jewish past, - that one path back to the beginning of the world, - was marked out by the absolute laws of mathematics and revelation.

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  • He was professor of mathematics in the university of Deseret and wrote several books on this subject, these including Cubic and Biquadratic Equations (1866).

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  • In mathematics, the "caustic surfaces" of a given surface are the envelopes of the normals to the surface, or the loci of its centres of principal curvature.

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  • The son graduated at Union College in 1818, and in 1821-1826 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy there.

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  • He graduated at Union College in 1826, was ordained a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church in 1828, was rector for several months in Saco, Maine, and in 1828-1833 was professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartford, Connecticut.

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  • He was then called in 1834 as ordinary professor of mathematics to Halle.

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  • In 1836 Plucker returned to Bonn as ordinary professor of mathematics.

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  • Placed at the age of fifteen in a counting-house at Bremen, he was impelled by his desire to obtain a situation as supercargo on a foreign voyage to study navigation, mathematics and finally astronomy.

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  • In pure mathematics he enlarged the resources of analysis by the invention of Bessel's Functions.

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  • It comprises five faculties (literature and philosophy, jurisprudence, mathematics, natural science and medicine), and is well equipped with zoological, mineralogical and geological museums, a physiological institute, a cabinet of anthropology, and botanical gardens.

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  • Arrived at Venice, he seems to have occupied himself chiefly with studies in mathematics and cosmography.

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  • Aristotle himself includes under the title, besides mathematics, all his physical inquiries.

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  • Thus mathematics assumes space as an existent infinite, without investigating in what sense the existence or the infinity of this Unding, as Kant called it, can be asserted.

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  • He was referred in natural philosophy, including mathematics, and obtained his degree only by a special but by no means infrequent act of indulgence.

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  • In 1 754 he published an anonymous treatise entitled Histoire des recherches sur la quadrature du cercle, and in 1758 the first part of his great work, Histoire des mathdmatiques, the first history of mathematics worthy of the name.

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  • In 1853 he passed out at the head of the list of engineers, and, after a brief practical experience at Almeria and Granada, was appointed professor of pure and applied mathematics in the school where he had lately been a pupil.

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  • He applies his mathematics to the drama; no writer excels him in artful construction, in the arrangement of dramatic scenes, in mere theatrical technique, in the focusing of attention on his chief personages.

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  • There were universities in Bogota and Medellin, the former having faculties of letters and philosophy, jurisprudence and political science, medicine and natural sciences, and mathematics and engineering, with an attendance of 1200 to 1500 students.

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  • After receiving preliminary instructions in mathematics from his father, he was sent to the university of Basel, where geometry soon became his favourite study.

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  • In 1730 he became professor of physics, and in 1733 he succeeded Daniel Bernoulli in the chair of mathematics.

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  • At the commencement of his new career he enriched the academical collection with many memoirs, which excited a noble emulation between him and the Bernoullis, though this did not in any way affect their friendship. It was at this time that he carried the integral calculus to a higher degree of perfection, invented the calculation of sines, reduced analytical operations to a greater simplicity, and threw new light on nearly all parts of pure mathematics.

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  • In 1741 Euler accepted the invitation of Frederick the Great to Berlin, where he was made a member of the Academy of Sciences and professor of mathematics.

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  • It was not mathematics but philology which was to settle the gathering doubts of Ernest Renan.

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  • During his university course, which began in 1740, Kant was principally attracted towards mathematics and physics.

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  • Here, for the first time, appears definitely the distinction between synthesis and analysis, and in the distinction is found the reason for the superior certainty and clearness of mathematics as opposed to philosophy.

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  • Mathematics, Kant thinks, proceeds synthetically, for in it the notions are constructed.

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  • Metaphysics, on the other hand, is analytical in method; in it the notions are given, and by analysis they are cleared up. It is to be observed that the description of mathematics as synthetic is not an anticipation of the critical doctrine on the same subject.

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  • The foundation for pure or rational mathematics, there being included under this the pure science of movement, is thus laid in the critical doctrine of space and time.

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  • It may well be that the whole abstract edifice of modern mathematics is built on these biologically innate foundations.

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  • Relativist mathematics, the criticism goes, by relinquishing absolutism amounts to ' anything goes ' .

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  • Or can visual images provide a genuine aide to understanding science and mathematics?

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  • Anglophone philosopher who brought the history back into the philosophy of mathematics.

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  • We have an aging population and a declining birthrate - the mathematics say the money just won't be there.

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  • Much use is made of ICT in our teaching and each mathematics classroom is equipped with a PC and an interactive whiteboard.

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  • Most of these teachers were also found to hold absolutist conceptions of mathematics; images that matched their teaching styles.

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  • Just as physical constants provide " boundary conditions " for the physical universe, mathematical constants somehow characterize the structure of mathematics.

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  • To the best of my knowledge the term ' social constructivism ' appeared in mathematics education from two sources.

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  • When teaching this important part of the mathematics curriculum, this poster offers useful support.

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  • My poor progress in mathematics was largely a result of my attention deficit.

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  • Holding a master's degree in mathematics is related to gains in student achievement.

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  • It is Mathematics purified from material dross and made spiritual.

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  • Professor Chris Jones has taken up a chair in nonlinear dynamics in the school of mathematics.

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  • What are the implications of these trends for the attractions of statistics and mathematics education to students?

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  • This was followed by three years as a mathematics teacher educator for Volunteer Services Overseas in Dominica in the Caribbean.

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  • Whilst this makes it very accessible, it also means that most of its considerable bulk is dedicated to fairly elementary mathematics.

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  • Burton, L. (1995) Moving toward a feminist epistemology of mathematics.

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  • Eurydice briefing... more Where England stands in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003.

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  • Predicate logic provides remarkable insight into these questions by providing a precise formalism capable of expressing all ordinary mathematics.

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  • The point was then generalized to number patterns in mathematics.

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  • Now one might reasonably ask what Sanskrit grammar has to do with mathematics.

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  • The Euclidean paradigm of mathematics as an objective, absolute, incorrigible and rigidly hierarchical body of knowledge is increasingly under question.

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  • We also meet teachers looking for better ideas for mathematics homework.

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  • Indeed, on every subject beside mathematics, he was profoundly ignorant.

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  • It has had a strongly interdisciplinary approach, involving courses in engineering, life sciences, and mathematics across the two institutions.

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  • Students are required to attend introductory September courses in mathematics, statistics, economics and econometrics before the main teaching program starts in October.

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  • Others take the view that mathematics is purely man-made.

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  • He then introduced one of the greatest masterstrokes in the whole of mathematics.

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  • A-level Statistics is not acceptable in place of A-level mathematics because it does not contain enough pure maths.

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  • The Institute of Mathematics and its Applications is the professional and learned society for qualified and practicing mathematicians.

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  • In fact, there are areas of mathematics that have been developed by mathematicians on the assumption that the Riemann Hypothesis is true.

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  • Hardy was a pure mathematician who hoped his mathematics could never be applied.

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  • We use ideas and tools from the broad fields of fluid mechanics, physics and applied mathematics.

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  • After two years in the army he returned to the military academy to teach mathematics.

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  • Examining the effects of different multiple representational systems in learning primary mathematics.

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  • Humans invent abstract mathematics, basically making it up out of their imaginations, yet math magically turns out to describe the world.

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  • Gilles Roberval began to study mathematics at the age of 14 years.

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  • Nonlinear analysis has surely contributed major developments which nowadays shape the face of applied mathematics.

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  • A basic grounding in discrete mathematics will assumed during the lectures on security.

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  • The content consists of a number of strands of pure mathematics with associated applications.

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  • Tutorial support for the elementary mathematics needed for this module will be provided for those who require it.

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  • However Prof Van Vleck also has interests in other areas of nonlinear mathematics, particularly shadowing.

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  • How can history of mathematics be useful for the mathematics education researcher?

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  • Many identify the problem as the splitting of the subject matter of A-level mathematics into six separately examined modules.

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  • These include complete sets of curriculum material for various college and university level courses, including calculus, linear algebra and engineering mathematics.

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  • Technology & teaching mathematics The calculator has had a big impact on the way children learn about numbers.

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  • Candidates must have a Degree in meteorology or a Degree in mathematics, physics or geography plus an M.S. or Diploma in applied meteorology.

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  • Mathematics has changed the meaning of statistics - from concern with ' facts about society ' to statistical method.

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  • The pairs in shows mathematics as cephalalgia mir p viable that is.

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  • Optional for students This class is optional for students This class is optional for second year BSc or MSci in Mathematics students.

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  • Successful completion leads to a postgraduate certificate in A level mathematics pedagogy.

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  • We see parallels in Randy's emerging fallibilist philosophy of mathematics and his changing instructional practice.

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  • You will ideally possess a PhD in Mathematics or Science with relevance to education.

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  • We also offer a taught postgraduate Diploma in Mathematics.

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  • Our key interest is in mathematics that model real-world processes, particularly those involving transit delays.

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  • He devised thousands of innovative chess rebus puzzles and mathematics puzzles, rebus puzzles and his rebuses rank among his most popular brain-teasers.

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  • Mathematics was far advanced then, that is why ancient Indian sages fixed the rate of precession of Equinoxes accurately.

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  • Results indicated a marginally significant difference in mathematics self-concept between the MD and AA groups but no difference between the AA and HA groups.

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  • A-Level Mathematics requires strict self-discipline to practice a large number of algebraic techniques to achieve a high standard of proficiency.

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  • In 1907, he entered a junior Franciscan seminary, where he excelled in mathematics and physics.

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  • The most fundamental of these is language, although mathematics and art are close behind in the conceptual sophistication they enable.

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  • Her teaching experience includes work as a key stage manager, mathematics co-ordinator and SENCo.

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  • Plus talks to two consultant statisticians about how they use mathematics to make an impact in the " real " world.

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  • The Group also occasionally strays outside mathematics and formal methods to game playing (bridge, go ), uncertainty and configuration problems.

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  • Complex mathematics was seen as subordinate to the needs of the practicing engineer.

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  • We have developed a new syllabi for them providing for teaching of Pakistan studies, Mathematics, Science and English along with religious subjects.

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  • The mathematical knowledge required will be common to all A-level mathematics syllabuses.

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  • The 11-18 curriculum for secondary school mathematics teaching is very extensive and thus the program is demanding.

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  • In an increasingly technological world the mathematics needed by tomorrow's citizens will continue to change.

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  • There is a theorem proved by Kurt Godel in 1931, which is the Incompleteness Theorem for mathematics.

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  • This contains a very thorough study of the mathematics tripos in the 19th century.

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  • As part of the research study we propose a typology of group tasks in mathematics that uses the notion of exchange models.

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  • Proceeds would be given to the new Mathematical Society, if it was formed, or to provide new mathematics books for student workrooms.

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  • He was the most prolific writer of mathematics of all time.

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  • Whatever may be the truth about these stories, Heraclides seems to have been a versatile and prolific writer on philosophy, mathematics, music, grammar, physics, history and rhetoric. Many of the works attributed to him, however, are probably by one or more persons of the same name.

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  • At Leipzig, Göttingen and Halle he studied for four years, ultimately devoting himself to mathematics and astronomy.

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  • From his sixth to his ninth year Alexius was educated by the diffuse and pedantic Vyazemsky, but after the removal of his mother to the Suzdal Prokovsky Monastery he was confided to the care of learned foreigners, who taught him history, geography, mathematics and French.

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  • In the second edition appeared the seventh - objections from Pere Bourdin, a Jesuit teacher of mathematics in Paris; and subsequently another set of objections, known as those of Hyperaspistes, was included in the collection of Descartes's letters.

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  • The arithmetical half of mathematics, which had been gradually growing into algebra, and had decidedly established itself as such in the Ad logisticen speciosam notae priores of Francois Vieta (1540-1603), supplied to some extent the means of generalizing geometry.

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  • All along mathematics was regarded by Descartes rather as the envelope than the foundation of his method; and the " universal mathematical science " which he sought after was only the prelude of a universal science of all-embracing character.2 The method of Descartes rests upon the proposition that all the objects of our knowledge fall into series, of which the members are more or less known by means of one another.

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  • Il mourut l'an 1616, et fut enterre hors la Porte Occidentale d'Edinbourg, dans l'Eglise de Sainct Cudbert.'" There can be no doubt that Napier's devotion to mathematics was not due to old age and the gout, and that he died in 1617 and not in 1616; still these sentences were written within eighteen years of Napier's death, and their author seems to have had some special sources of information.

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  • Almost the only changes which can be called events are his successful establishment of a school at Lincoln, its removal to Waddington, his appointment in 1849 as professor of mathematics in the Queen's College at Cork, and his marriage in 1855 to Miss Mary Everest, who, as Mrs Boole, afterwards wrote several useful educational works on her husband's principles.

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  • These treatises are valuable contributions to the important branches of mathematics in question, and Boole, in composing them, seems to have combined elementary exposition with the profound investigation of the philosophy of the subject in a manner hardly admitting of improvement.

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  • He did not regard logic as a branch of mathematics, as the title of his earlier pamphlet might be taken to imply, but he pointed out such a deep analogy between the symbols of algebra and those which can be made, in his opinion, to represent logical forms and syllogisms, that we can hardly help saying that logic is mathematics restricted to the two quantities, o and 1.

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  • He attended lectures while supporting himself by teaching mathematics and physics at the polytechnic school at Zurich until 1900 and finally, after a year as tutor at Schaffhausen, was appointed examiner of patents at the patent office at Berne, where, having become a Swiss citizen, he remained until 1909.

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  • He became remarkably proficient in all branches of learning, but especially in mathematics.

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  • At the age of ten Patrick was making slow progress in the study of reading, writing and arithmetic at a small country school, when his father became his tutor and taught him Latin, Greek and mathematics for five years, but with limited success.

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  • He was brought up on his father's farm, studied at Hobart Academy, and though he left school in his sixteenth year, devoted himself assiduously thereafter to private study, chiefly of mathematics and surveying, at the same time keeping books for a blacksmith for his board.

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  • Being admitted to holy orders, he left the university about 1603, and was presented to the rectory of Aldbury, near Guildford in Surrey; and about 1628 he was appointed by the earl of Arundel to instruct his son in mathematics.

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  • In 1823 he was appointed one of the teachers of mathematics at the military college of Sandhurst, and in 1833 he was appointed actuary to the Amicable Life Assurance Office, the oldest institution of that kind in London; in which situation he remained till his death on the 1st of November 1851.

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  • All these topics require thorough discussion before we can rest content with the definition of mathematics as the general science of magnitude; and by the time they are discussed the definition has evaporated.

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  • The applications of mathematics to statistics (see Statistics and Probability) should not be lost sight of; the leading fields for these applications are insurance, sociology, variation in zoology and economics.

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  • Hertz, have transformed applied mathematics by systematically basing their deductions upon the Law of the conservation of energy, and the hypothesis of an ether pervading space.

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  • Most philosophers refer in their works to mathematics more or less cursorily, either in the treatment of the ideas of number and magnitude, or in their consideration of the alleged a priori and necessary truths.

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  • A matrix has in many parts of mathematics a signification apart from its evaluation as a determinant.

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  • The former institution had an ephemeral existence; but amongst the benefits derived from the foundation of the Ecole Polytechnique one of the greatest, it has been observed, 4 was the restoration of Lagrange to mathematics.

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  • He received his early education, comprising Latin, logic and rhetoric, at the Necessidades Monastery, and spent a year at the Royal Marine Academy studying mathematics with the intention of entering on a commercial career.

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  • The great development of all branches of mathematics in the two centuries following Descartes has led to the term algebra being used to cover a great variety of subjects, many of which are really only ramifications of arithmetic, dealt with by algebraical methods, while others, such as the theory of numbers and the general theory of series, are outgrowths of the application of algebra to arithmetic, which involve such special ideas that they must properly be regarded as distinct subjects.

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  • Jean le Rond d'Alembert acknowledges with gratitude, that "whatever she knew of mathematics he owed to the works of Jean Bernoulli."

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  • On the other hand, scientific men, such as Herschel, Maxwell and Stokes, who approach nature from mathematics and mechanics, and therefore from the universal laws of motion, have the opposite tendency, because they perceive that nature is not its own explanation.

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  • After attending the Latin school of his native town, Gotthold was sent in 1741 to the famous school of St Afra at Meissen, where he made such rapid progress, especially in classics and mathematics, that, towards the end of his school, career he was described by the rector as "a steed that needed double fodder."

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  • So it came to pass that, while he was unable, by reason of imperfect training and too tardy development, with all his pains, to make any contribution to physical science or to mathematics as instrumental in physical research, he attempted a task which no other adherent of the new " mechanical philosophy " conceived - nothing less than such a universal construction of human knowledge as would bring Society and Man (at once the matter and maker of Society) within the same principles of scientific explanation as were found applicable to the world of Nature.

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  • As a teacher of mathematics Poisson is said to have been more than ordinarily successful, as might have been expected from his early promise as a repetiteur at the Ecole Polytechnique.

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  • His ethical theory of "fitness" (see Ell-Tics) is formulated on the analogy of mathematics.

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  • Mathematics, however, which had been his favourite study in youth, continued to engross his attention, and on the 6th of March 1619 he was appointed professor of astronomy in Gresham College, London.

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  • He afterwards served on board the "Washington" (74) carrying the broad pennant of Commodore Chauncey in the Mediterranean, and pursued his professional and other studies under the instruction of the chaplain, Charles Folsom, with whom he contracted a lifelong friendship. Folsom was appointed from the "Washington" as U.S. consul at Tunis, and obtained leave for his pupil to pay him a lengthened visit, during which he studied not only mathematics, but also French and Italian, and acquired a familiar knowledge of Arabic and Turkish.

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  • It was not until Mr. Keith taught me that I had a clear idea of mathematics.

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  • I think Mr. Keith is a wonderful teacher, and I feel very grateful to him for having made me see the beauty of Mathematics.

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  • This arrangement worked very well in the languages, but not nearly so well in the Mathematics.

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  • Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.

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  • Research Interests Truth, foundations of mathematics and science, the scientific realism debate.

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  • This exclusive reliance on the intuition in establishing valid proofs became common among mathematics education philosophers.

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  • His analysis of the semiotics of mathematics is powerful and surprising.

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  • The conclusion to be drawn is that the signifiers of mathematics do not correspond to unique signifieds.

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  • Her teaching experience includes work as a Key Stage manager, mathematics co-ordinator and SENCo.

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  • The Group also occasionally strays outside mathematics and formal methods to game playing (bridge, go), uncertainty and configuration problems.

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  • He claims that " it is not natural, even if it is possible " to teach practical mathematics as a separate subject.

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  • Saunderson told him that he was hoping to become a teacher of mathematics.

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  • The emphasis was on the teaching of mathematics in secondary schools but there are links relevant to the PhD crisis.

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  • In an increasingly technological world the mathematics needed by tomorrow 's citizens will continue to change.

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  • Our tipsters info come in the form of arbitrage advice for use on b the 3rd year students majoring in mathematics.

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  • When the imaginary transfinite mathematics of the actual infinite is translated into real finite terms, the results are nonsensical.

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  • LaTeX is a variant of TeX, which is the world standard for typesetting mathematics.

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  • T E X provides an unrivaled facility for elegant typesetting of mathematics.

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  • The mathematics background is typified by the fact that most undergraduate courses have A-level mathematics (or equivalent) as an entry requirement.

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  • I am working on achieving expertise in mathematics so that I can become a teacher.

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  • Using lines in mathematics and physics helps us to understand direction, but using vectors also tells us the magnitude.

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  • Harold was a low achiever in mathematics, so his parents hired a tutor for his studies.

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  • The Michigan State University College of Education offers a Master of Arts in Education degree online with concentrations in special education, technology, school leadership, literacy, and science and mathematics education.

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  • You can also learn about the history of philosophy as well as traditions and how science, logic and mathematics relates to philosophy of the past.

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  • Not only is Discovery Education.com a wonderful resource for learning, but the site also offers help in subjects like mathematics, social studies and English.

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  • These scores are calculated based on the results of CST California Standardized Test (CST) scores in both Mathematics and English-Language Arts.

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  • Many high school students may get frustrated with physics as it involves a good deal of mathematics.

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  • Grade seven through eight core classes include English Language Arts, Health and Personal Life Skills, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.

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  • High school courses include Career and Life Management, English, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Pure Mathematics, Physical Education, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Science, and Social Studies.

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  • Grades one through three courses include Language Arts, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, Health and Life Skills, Physical Education, Fine Arts (Music, Art, and Drama), and Information and Communication Technology.

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  • Grades seven through nine courses include English-Language Arts, Health and Personal Life Skills, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.

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  • National SMART Grants, also known as National Science and Mathematics Access to Retain Talent Grants, provide up to $4,000 for third or fourth year students pursuing undergraduate degrees in computer, life, or physical science programs.

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  • In addition, the school provides building skills seminars in mathematics, study skills, English and technology.

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  • These programs start with one to two years of core courses (English, mathematics, social sciences, history) and end with two to three years of advanced science and engineering courses.

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  • Prerequisites include courses in communication, psychology, biology, chemistry, physics and mathematics.

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  • Reading and literacy is unique as a subject area because unlike more specialized topics, it is useful in almost every academic division, ranging from mathematics to the arts.

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  • Walden University Online offers master's of education degrees in adolescent literacy and technology, elementary reading and literacy, elementary reading and mathematics, and literacy and learning in the content areas.

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  • Students in grades three through eight can take Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies.

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  • You will work with programming languages like C++, 3D graphics, artificial intelligence algorithms and high-level mathematics.

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  • The puzzles are based on logic and mathematics, yet they take no more skill than a good sense of organization.

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  • Other information includes covers the graphics, mathematics and physics of game design.

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  • In fact, video games for kids are designed to be educational, making the process of learning the alphabet, mathematics, logic, reasoning, puzzle solving, and strategizing... fun!

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  • Magnet schools often advertise themselves as "centers of excellence" in a certain area, such as performing arts, science, or mathematics.

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  • Uses multiple choice and open-ended test questions to assess reading/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies skills.

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  • Uses multiple choice and open-ended test questions to assess reading/language arts and mathematics skills.

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  • Uses multiple choice questions to assess reading/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies skills.

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  • Uses multiple choice questions to assess reading/language arts and mathematics skills.

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  • A shortened version of the complete battery, this form uses multiple choice questions to assess reading/language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies skills.

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  • Add-on assessments that address the academic components of word analysis, vocabulary, language mechanics, spelling, and mathematics computation.

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  • Savant skills occur in a number of different areas, including music, visual arts, and mathematics.

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  • Learning disabilities-An impairment of the cognitive processes of understanding and using spoken and written language that results in difficulties with one or more academic skill sets (e.g., reading, writing, mathematics).

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  • They may have some learning disabilities, particularly with regard to spatial perception, visual-motor coordination, and mathematics.

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  • It requires a shared understanding of symbol systems, such as language and mathematics.

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  • People with learning disorders have difficulty with reading, writing, mathematics, or a combination of the three.

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  • The five main types of learning disorders are reading disorders, mathematics disorders, disorders of written expression, disorders of fine motor skills, and information processing disorders.

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  • Children with mathematics disorders (dyscalculia) have problems recognizing and counting numbers correctly.

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  • Mathematics disorders are typically diagnosed in the first few years of elementary school when formal teaching of numbers and basic math concepts begins.

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  • Children with mathematics disorders usually have a coexisting reading disorder, a disorder of written expression, or both.

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  • Disorders of written expression typically occur in combination with reading disorders or mathematics disorders or both.

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  • An example of an irrational number in mathematics, the Golden Ratio is a constant that represents a ratio of two quantities and how they relate to one another.

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  • In mathematics, the value assigned to Phi is 1.618.

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  • It is only possible to derive Phi using mathematics, geometry or the Fibonacci Sequence of numbers.

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  • You can only derive Phi by using mathematics, geometry or the Fibonacci Sequence of numbers.

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  • While it is easy to understand how a child could learn history or language skills without a formal curriculum, parents often lose confidence when it comes to mathematics.

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  • Human beings use mathematics thousands of times a day in almost every activity that they engage in.

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  • For these learners, a mathematics curriculum that includes games or hands on learning materials is essential.

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  • If you're choosing among several mathematics curricula for your child, how do you know which one is right for you?

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  • Parents considering using this resource over other homeschooling math books and mathematics program may wonder what the benefits are of using this resources over others.

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  • There are many good mathematics programs, kits and books on the market . Yet the benefits of using this program outweigh many of the benefits of others.

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  • First, for parents unfamiliar with mathematics or uncomfortable with mathematics, using a resource such as this one, which contains clear teaching guides, make sit much easier to work through concepts.

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  • This product also contains approximately one full year of mathematics instruction, equivalent to 7th or 8th grade math, offering a very good value for the money.

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  • If your homeschooled children discover a passion for history, science, or mathematics, their education need not be limited by your budget.

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  • Whether you're looking for basic reading or mathematics help or special lessons in biology or algebra, the web has brought the largest library of free and paid resources to your doorstep.

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  • Learning how to teach multiplication to your child effectively is an important step in your child's mastery of mathematics.

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  • Five in a Row uses classic and modern children's literature to develop a full curriculum, including mathematics, history, social studies, science and English.

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  • Simply because Singapore students test consistently higher in mathematics on international tests.

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  • For such reasons, these texts have become available for American parents who hope to familiarize and educate their children in mathematics using a clear and tangible learning approach.

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  • Mathematics is amongst the more complicated subjects for students because the language of math is often seen as largely symbolic.

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  • Mathematics is indeed a language of its own.

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  • Herein lies one of the greatest challenges in effectively teaching young people mathematics, a challenge which the Singapore method may have overcome.

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  • Singapore mathematics curriculae have incorporated a learning tool into their learning approach called the Model Method.

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  • Since mathematics is generally considered to be an abstract field, these illustrations and demonstrations produce a tangible medium within which a student can effectively learn.

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  • Since math is one of the trickier subjects to teach from the home, many curriculums that otherwise succeed in the areas of English and science simply do not provide a mathematics program that fits your child.

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  • Origami can be a great way to introduce children to crafts, and it can also help teach the basic principles of mathematics.

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  • Japanese origami theorist and mathematics professor Toshikazu Kawasaki is credited with designing several folded paper roses.

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  • As part of a mathematics project, the creation of an origami frog was integrated into a geometry lesson.

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  • It's hard to believe today with our computer models and 3D graphics, but it took engineer Joseph Strauss a decade to convince the city's commissioners that his mathematics were sound and that his plan for the bridge was feasible.

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  • Children may become frustrated and angry when they don't understand mathematics.

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  • You can find other ideas for these kinds of games, as well as online and paper games, at the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics site, as well as the Learn Partners site.

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  • Many movies such as A Beautiful Mind and Proof as well as the popular series Numb3rs all have mathematics as a primary part of the story.

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  • However, Ramsey believes that personal finance is sometimes about changing behaviors instead of focusing on strict mathematics.

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  • Part of the appeal of Suze Orman is that her approach to financial management goes beyond pure mathematics.

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  • Many Virgos are drawn to science and mathematics as the perfect expression of their rationality and intelligence.

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  • After a few years, children start requiring a structured environment to learn additional skills such as reading, writing, and mathematics.

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  • Although these individuals stand out for their contributions to arts, mathematics, literature, and other important areas, they may be most valued for their ability to bridge the gap between people with autism and the neurotypical world.

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  • The candidate should have a degree in a related field, such as mathematics or statistics.

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  • In fact, the father of MP3, Karlheinz Brandenburg, is someone who is more interested in mathematics than music.

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  • From his sixth to his ninth year he was given over to the care of learned foreigners, who taught him history, geography, mathematics and French.

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  • At the end of 1709 he went to Dresden for twelve months for finishing lessons in French and German, mathematics and fortification, and, his education completed, he was married, greatly against his will, to the princess Charlotte of BrunswickWolfenbiittel, whose sister espoused, almost simultaneously, the heir to the Austrian throne, the archduke Charles.

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  • On his return to the capital Peter, in order to see what progress his son had made in mechanics and mathematics, asked him to draw something of a technical nature for his inspection.

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  • He then returned to Pavia, where he pursued his studies at the university under Francesco Brioschi, and determined to seek a career as teacher of mathematics.

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  • The majority of them are addressed to Mersenne, and deal with problems of physics, musical theory (in which he took a special interest), and mathematics.

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