Elementary algebra, with brief notices of its history1879 |
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... edition was edited by his son and Fermat , and published at Toulouse in 1670.1 These six books contain collections of problems , with their solu- tions , relating chiefly to properties of numbers , such as square and cube numbers ...
... edition was edited by his son and Fermat , and published at Toulouse in 1670.1 These six books contain collections of problems , with their solu- tions , relating chiefly to properties of numbers , such as square and cube numbers ...
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... edition of the Kholasat al Hisab , will serve as an illustration of this remark : - : - " Complete the side in which the expression illa ( less , minus ) occurs , and add as much to the other side , O learned man : this is in correct ...
... edition of the Kholasat al Hisab , will serve as an illustration of this remark : - : - " Complete the side in which the expression illa ( less , minus ) occurs , and add as much to the other side , O learned man : this is in correct ...
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... edition of his works printed in 1529 . The treatise is one of the works of Gerbert , on the Abacus , and was dedicated by him to his friend Constantinus . Alcuin , a disciple of the Venerable Bede , was the author of nu- merous works ...
... edition of his works printed in 1529 . The treatise is one of the works of Gerbert , on the Abacus , and was dedicated by him to his friend Constantinus . Alcuin , a disciple of the Venerable Bede , was the author of nu- merous works ...
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... editions . The second part of his treatise was entitled , " The Whetstone of Witte , ' containing the extraction of rootes , the Cossike practice with the rules of equation ; and the workes of surde nombers . " This work is drawn up in ...
... editions . The second part of his treatise was entitled , " The Whetstone of Witte , ' containing the extraction of rootes , the Cossike practice with the rules of equation ; and the workes of surde nombers . " This work is drawn up in ...
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... edition of which was published in 1555. The geometry was translated by William Bedwell into Eng- lish , and published in a quarto volume at London , 1636 . Peter Ramus was born in the year 1515 , and became one of the most distinguished ...
... edition of which was published in 1555. The geometry was translated by William Bedwell into Eng- lish , and published in a quarto volume at London , 1636 . Peter Ramus was born in the year 1515 , and became one of the most distinguished ...
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Page 34 - ... la diversité de nos opinions ne vient pas de ce que les uns sont plus raisonnables que les autres, mais seulement de ce que nous conduisons nos pensées par diverses voies, et ne considérons pas les mêmes choses. Car ce n'est pas assez d'avoir l'esprit bon, mais le principal est de l'appliquer bien.
Page 34 - Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée ; car chacun pense en être si bien pourvu , que ceux même qui sont les plus difficiles à contenter en toute autre chose n'ont point coutume d'en désirer plus qu'ils en ont.
Page 61 - The first of four magnitudes is said to have the same ratio to the second, which the third has to the fourth, when any...
Page 28 - As a blind man has no idea of colors, so have we no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things. He is utterly void of all body and bodily figure, and can therefore neither be seen, nor heard, nor touched ; nor ought he to be worshipped under the representation of any corporeal thing. We have ideas of his attributes, but what the real substance of anything is, we know not.
Page 16 - The number of square units in the area of a rectangle...
Page 11 - But the answer is easy; for by the ultimate velocity is meant that with which the body is moved, neither before it arrives at its last place and the motion ceases, nor after, but at the very instant it arrives; that is, that velocity with which the body arrives at its last place, and with which the motion ceases.
Page 27 - This most beautiful system of the Sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an Intelligent and Powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centers of other like systems, these being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One...
Page 56 - Prove that if any number of quantities be in continued proportion, as one of the antecedents is to its consequent so is the sum of all the antecedents to the sum of all the consequents.
Page 17 - Collins, dated between the years 1669 and 1677, inclusive; and showed them to such as knew and avouched the hands of Mr. Barrow, Mr. Collins, Mr. Oldenburg, and Mr. Leibnitz ; and compared those of Mr. Gregory with one another, and with copies of some of them taken in the hand of Mr. Collins...
Page 11 - ... instant it arrives ; that is, that velocity with which the body arrives at its last place, and with which the motion ceases. " And in like manner, by the ultimate ratio of evanescent quantities...