 MATHEMATICS as a science commenced when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things, without specification of definite particular things.  An Introduction to Mathematics - 15. lappuseautors: Alfred North Whitehead - 1911 - 256 lapasPilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | 1914 - 404 lapas
...bent is leading to identical conclusions.1 1 "Mathematics as a science commenced when first some one, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things...without specification of definite particular things." AN Whitehead, Introduction to Mathematics. Fons et origo of logic and mathematics are thus explicitly... | |
 | William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 522 lapas
...freedom, and real science became possible. Mathematics as a science commenced when first some one, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things...without specification of definite particular things. — Whitehead. INDEBTEDNESS OF GREECE TO BABYLONIA AND EGYPT. — It is plain, nevertheless, that Greek... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 1920 - 376 lapas
...probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things without specification of particular things. These propositions were first enunciated...geometry was the great Greek mathematical science." * This is an admirable statement of the spirit of the science and of why it outgrew the limits of geometry.... | |
 | Samuel Alexander - 1920 - 376 lapas
...features of things. Mathematics as a science, says Mr. Whitehead, " commenced when first some one, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things or about some things without specification of particular things. These propositions were first enunciated by the Greeks for geometry ; and accordingly... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1925 - 388 lapas
...over from mathematics. "Mathematics as a science," writes Whitehead, "commenced when first some one, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things...without specification of definite particular things." l Causes of Ambiguity. We have seen that a highly developed notation or set of symbols has the merits... | |
 | Edward Herbert Cameron - 1927 - 492 lapas
...performed in respect to numbers in general. "Mathematics as a science commenced when first some one, probably a Greek, proved propositions about any things...things, without specification of definite particular things."1 The equation. — Next we come to the equation, which is often considered distinctive of... | |
 | Clifford A. Pickover - 2002 - 374 lapas
...digits within n that have also been found within in el" Difficulty Level: 100 Venusian Number Bush Mathematics as a science, commenced when first someone,...about "any" things or about "some" things, without specifications of definite particular things. - Alfred North Whitehead, The Aims of Education oday... | |
 | Jennifer Ashton - 2006 - 148 lapas
...the importance of the variable" (175). "Mathematics as a science commenced," Whitehead speculates, "when first someone, probably a Greek, proved propositions...without specification of definite particular things" (7). The variable provides the technology for constructing such propositions; indeed, such propositions... | |
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