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An Introduction to Mathematics (Classic Reprint)
An Introduction to Mathematics - Classic Reprint Author:Alfred North Whitehead AN INTKODUCTION TO MATHEMATICS CHAPTER I the abstract nature of mathematics The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment. The important applications of the science, the theoretical interest of its ideas, and the logical rigour of its methods, all generate the expectation of a speedy introduction to processes of interest. We are ... more »told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet's father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it-"'Tis here, 'tis there, 'tis gone"-and what we do see does not suggest the same excuse for illusiveness as sufficed for the ghost, that it is too noble for our gross methods. "A show of violence," if ever excusable, may surely be "offered" to the trivial results which occupy the 7
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; chap page; I The Abstract Nature of Mathematics 7; II Variables 15; III Methods of Application 25; IV Dynamics 42; V The Symbolism of Mathematics 58; VI Generalizations of Number 71; VII Imaginary Numu?rs 87; VII Imaginary Numbers (continued) 101; IX Co-ordinate Geometry 112; X Con'ic Sections 128; XI Functions 145; XII Periodicity in Nature 161; XIII Trigonometry 173; XIV Series: 194; XV The Differential Calculus 217; XVI Geometry 236; XVII Quantity 245; Note on Books 251; Index 253
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