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The Elements of a New Arithmetical Notation: And of a New Arithmetic of Infinites (Classic Reprint)
The Elements of a New Arithmetical Notation And of a New Arithmetic of Infinites - Classic Reprint Author:Thomas Taylor Excerpt from The Elements of a New Arithmetical Notation: And of a New Arithmetic of Infinites — If novelty alone were sufficient to entitle a work to applause, of whatever description it may be, the following pages would not, perhaps, rank among those production that merit only a small degree of praise; but as novelty in mathematics, unaccompani... more »ed by truth, is perfectly nugatory, and resembles "a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing," the author of this elementary treatise trusts that his theory will be found to be no less true than novel, and no less rigidly accurate in its demonstrations than important in its results.
The new mode of notation adopted in this work, depends on numeral interval, or vacuity in connexion with number, and position with reference to unity.
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