 Before the introduction of the Arabic notation, multiplication was difficult, and the division even of integers called into play the highest mathematical faculties. Probably nothing in the modern world would have more astonished a Greek mathematician...  An Introduction to Mathematics - 59. lappuseautors: Alfred North Whitehead - 1911 - 256 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - 1914 - 434 lapas
...integers called into play the highest mathematical faculties. Probably nothing in the modern world could have more astonished a Greek mathematician than to...fact would have seemed to him a sheer impossibility. . . . Our modern power of easy reckoning with decimal fractions is the most miraculous result of a... | |
 | Eduard Study - 1928 - 78 lapas
...under the influence of compulsory education, a large Proportion of the .population of Western Europe could perform the operation of division for the largest...till the seventeenth Century. Our modern power of early reckoning with decimal fractions is the almost miraculous result of the gradual dissovery of... | |
 | John de Pillis - 2002 - 364 lapas
...integers called into play the highest mathematical faculties. Probably nothing in the modern world could have more astonished a Greek mathematician than to...fact would have seemed to him a sheer impossibility Our modern power of easy reckoning with decimal fractions is the most miraculous result of a perfect... | |
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