 extent " is not the right one : I mean extent crowded with beautiful detail — not an extent of mere uniformity such as an objectless plain, but of a tract of beautiful country seen at first in the distance, but which will bear to be rambled through...  Punch - Sida 56redigerad av - 1883Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1895 - 570 sidor
...vast extent of modern mathematics. The word ' extent ' is not the right one : I mean extent crowded with beautiful detail — not an extent of mere uniformity...valley, stream, rock, wood, and flower. But, as for everything else, so for a mathematical theory — beauty can be perceived but not explained." But he... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1883 - 880 sidor
...vast extent of modern mathematics. This word ' extent ' is not the right one: I mean extent crowded with beautiful detail, — not an extent of mere uniformity,...valley, stream, rock, wood, and flower. But as for any thing else, so for a mathematical theory, — beauty can be perceived, but not explained. As for... | |
 | Gino Loria - 1888 - 160 sidor
...with beautiful detail — not an extent of mere uniformity such as an objectless plain, but of a traot of beautiful country seen at first in the distance,...hillside and valley, stream, rock, wood and flower." (Rede von Cayley i. J. 1883 vor der „British Association for the Advancement of Science" gehalten.)... | |
 | Alfred Ewen Fletcher - 1889 - 592 sidor
...philosopher. The latter is apt to look on the vast extent of modern mathematics as 'an extent crowded with beautiful detail, not an extent of mere uniformity,...rambled through and studied in every detail of hillside anc valley, stream, rock, wood, and flower. The former looks upon the same tract with the view of developing... | |
 | Alfred Ewen Fletcher - 1892 - 582 sidor
...detail, not an extent of mere uniformity, such as an objectless plain, but of a tract of beauti ful country seen at first in the distance, but which will...hillside and valley, stream, rock, wood, and flower.' ' The former looks upon the same tract with the view of developing its resources for the benefit, sustenance,... | |
 | Alfred Ewen Fletcher - 1892 - 580 sidor
...detail, not an extent of mere uniformity, such as an objectless plain, but of a tract of beauti ful country seen at first in the distance, but which will...rambled through and studied in every detail of hillside a-ul valley, stream, rock, wood, and flower.' ' The former looks upon the same tract with the view... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1895 - 556 sidor
...vast extent of modern mathematics. The word ' extent ' is not the right one : I mean extent crowded with beautiful detail — not an extent of mere uniformity...valley, stream, rock, wood, and flower. But, as for everything else, so for a mathematical theory — beauty can be perceived but not explained." But he... | |
 | Arthur Cayley - 1896 - 676 sidor
...vast extent of modern mathematics. This word " extent " is not the right one : I mean extent crowded with beautiful detail — not an extent of mere uniformity...theory — beauty can be perceived, but not explained. As for mere extent, I can perhaps best illustrate this by speaking of the dates at which some of the... | |
 | Arthur Cayley - 1896 - 663 sidor
...vast extent of modern mathematics. This word " extent" is not the right one: I mean extent crowded with beautiful detail— not an extent of mere uniformity...flower. But, as for anything else, so for a mathematical theory—beauty can be perceived, but not explained. As for mere extent, I can perhaps best illustrate... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1898 - 512 sidor
...vast extent of modern mathematics. This word 'extent' is not the right one : I mean extent crowded with beautiful detail, — not an extent of mere uniformity...hillside and valley, stream, rock, wood, and flower." It is pleasant to the mathematician to think that in his, as in no other science, the achievements... | |
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