 | Education - 1912 - 454 pages
...has been Jost to classical literature " through the transformation of the world by modern science. " Elementary mathematics is one of the most characteristic creations of modern thought " — " by virtue of the intimate way in which it correlates theory and practice." What will our multitudinous... | |
 | Joseph Needham - History - 1959 - 1146 pages
...graphical representation of the functional relation, or our modern idea of the algebraic variable. Elementary mathematics is one of the most characteristic...the intimate way in which it correlates theory and practice.0 How far the mathematics of ancient and medieval China helped to lay the foundations for... | |
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... Weierstrass' theory of limits and Georg Cantor's theory of sets of points are much more allied to Greek modes of thought than our modern arithmetic, our modern theory of positive and negative numbers, our modern graphical representation of the functional... 