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But when we look around us, we see, in contrast to the gracious and fostering reception of the mere mechanism by which science is made manifest, the utmost intolerance to science itself. The mathematics in especial are deemed the very cabala of the black art. Sharon Turner, "History of England," vol iv. p. 6.
So was the mathematics professor, old "Ichthyosaurus" James, a very fine old ruin, whom Hogboom hated with a frenzy worthy of a better cause, but who, it seemed, had worked up a great regard for Hogboom through having him for three years in the same trigonometry class. We went out of Faculty meeting men and equals with the professors.
But I have no real knowledge, only a smattering of things." "What do you know French and German?" "Yes." "Latin?" "Yes, I know something of it." "Greek?" "I can read it fairly, but I am not a Greek scholar." "Mathematics?" "No, I gave them up. There is no human nature about mathematics. They work everything to a fixed conclusion that must result.
"Yes, and chemistry and physics and Greek and Latin and history and mathematics and economics, and I took more or less of a whirl at all of them, while you were fiddling with ribbons, and then I had to buck mechanics and business methods." "I also 'fiddled' with manners an unfortunate omission in your curriculum, I take it! You have been reasonably rude " "So have you!" "I had to be!
The mathematics are distinguished by a peculiar privilege, that, in the course of ages, they may always advance, and can never recede.
Happy will it be for the University if they can inspire a love for the science in the pupils committed to their charge. But where inspiration fails, coercion can never supply its place. If the mathematics shall continue to reign at Harvard, may their empire become a law of liberty.
If you can buy one member of the lower house for ten dollars, how many members can you buy for fifty? It was no such problem in primary arithmetic that Mr. Balch and his associates had to solve theirs was in higher mathematics, in permutations and combinations, and in least squares. No wonder the old campaigners speak with tears in their eyes of the days of that ever memorable summer.
He had very little formal education, mathematics being the only subject in which he excelled, and that he learned chiefly by himself. But he lived abundantly an out-of-door life, hunting and fishing much, and playing on the plantation. His family, although not rich, lived in easy fashion, and ranked among the gentry.
Moreover at this juncture he seems to have been strongly moved to augment the fame which he had already won in Mathematics and Medicine by some great literary achievement, and he worked diligently with this object in view. At the beginning of November 1551, a letter came to him from Cassanate, a Franco-Spanish physician, who was at that time in attendance upon the Archbishop of St.
He renounced mathematics and law, in which his reading had been considerable, all but the literature of the arts. Nothing was to enter into his life unpenetrated by its central enthusiasm. At this time he undergoes the charm of Voltaire.
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