Mathematics Inaugural Address on the Nature, Language and Uses of Mathematical Science (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Mathematics Inaugural Address on the Nature, Language and Uses of Mathematical Science The first, and surely the most difficult duty assigned to me by the Board of Trustees, is that of explaining to a popular audience the nature of Mathematical Science - the forms of its language - its uses as a means of mental training and development - its value as the true basis of the practical - the sources of knowledge which it opens to the mind and the place which it should occupy in a justly balanced system of Collegiate instruction. The term Mathematics, as used by the ancients, embraced every known Science and was also applicable to all other branches of Knowledge. Subsequently, it was restricted to those more difficult subjects which require continuous attention, severe study, patient investigation and exact reasoning; and such subjects were called Disciplinal, or Mathematical. Mathematics, as a science, is conversant about the laws of Numbers and Space. The two abstract quantities. Number and Space, are the only subjects of Mathematical Science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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