Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations

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CRC Press, 1. 1. 1998 - Počet stran: 484
For the first time, a book has brought together in one easily accessible form the best expressed thoughts that are especially illuminating and pertinent to the discipline of mathematics. Mathematically Speaking: A Dictionary of Quotations provides profound, wise, and witty quotes from the most famous to the unknown. You may not find all the quoted "jewels" that exist, but you will definitely a great many of them here. The extensive author and subject indexes provide you with the perfect tools for locating quotations for practical use or pleasure, and you will soon enjoy discovering what others have said on topics ranging from addition to zero.

This book will be a handy reference for the mathematician or scientific reader and the wider public interested in who has said what on mathematics.

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MODEL
262
MOEBIUS STRIP
264
MULTIPLICATION
266
NOTATION
268
NUMBERS
269
OBSERVATION
281
OPINIONS
284
ORDER
285

CALCULATION
23
CALCULUS
29
CIRCLE
34
CLASS
36
COMMON SENSE
37
COMPUTERS
39
CONIC SECTIONS
40
CURVES
41
DECIMALS
42
DEDUCTION
43
DEFINED
45
DERIVATIVE
46
DIFFERENTIAL
47
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION
48
DIMENSION
51
DISCOVERY
55
DIVERGENCE
57
DIVISION
58
e
59
ELLIPSE
61
ELLIPTIC FUNCTIONS
62
EQUATION
63
ERROR
65
EUCLID
67
EXAMPLE
68
FACTORS
69
FIBONACCI
70
FIELD
71
FIGURES
72
FORMULA
74
FRACTIONS
76
FUNCTION
77
GEOMETER
79
GEOMETRY
81
HYPERBOLA
92
HYPOTHESIS
93
INDUCTION
97
INFINITE
99
INTEGERS
109
INTEGRATION
110
IRRATIONAL NUMBERS
112
KNOTS
113
LIMIT
114
LINE
116
LOGARITHM
117
LOGIC
118
LOGICIAN
121
MAP
122
MATHEMATICAL
124
MATHEMATICAL WRITING
145
MATHEMATICIAN
149
MATHEMATICS
178
MAXIMUM AND MINIMUM
258
METHOD
259
MISTAKE
261
ORDINALS
287
PARABOLA
288
PARADOX
289
PARALLELOGRAM
291
PERFECT NUMBER
292
PI
293
PI MNEMONICS
296
POINT
298
POSTULATE
299
PRAYER
300
PRECISION
302
PRIME
303
PRINCIPLE
304
PROBABILITY
305
PROOF
308
PYTHAGOREANS
313
REASONING
315
RECTANGLE
317
RECURSION
318
REFEREES
319
RELATIONS
320
RESEARCH
321
SERIES
323
SET
324
SPHERE
326
SQUARE
327
STATISTICS
328
STRUCTURE
330
SUBTRACTION
331
SURFACE
333
SYMBOLS
334
SYMMETRY
336
TENSOR
340
THEOREMS
343
THEORIST
344
THEORY
345
THEORY OF FUNCTIONS
348
THOUGHT
349
TOPOLOGIST
350
TOPOLOGY
351
TRANSCENDENTAL NUMBERS
352
TRANSFORM
353
TRANSITIONS
354
TRIANGLE
355
TRIGONOMETRY
356
TRUTH
357
VECTOR
359
WISDOM
360
ZERO
361
BIBLIOGRAPHY
363
PERMISSIONS
396
SUBJECT BY AUTHOR INDEX
399
AUTHOR BY SUBJECT INDEX
459
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Strana 105 - O God ! I could be bounded in a nut-shell, and count myself a king of infinite space; were it not that I have bad dreams.
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Strana 26 - As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives, Every wife had seven sacks, Every sack had seven cats, Every cat had seven kits — Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, How many were going to St. Ives?
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