Proceedings, Volume 5, Part 1

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Gauthier-Villars, 1913 - Mathematics
 

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Page 141 - ... the art of directing the great sources of power in nature for the use and convenience of man, as the means of production and of traffic in states.
Page 152 - Aeronautics to supervise and direct the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view to their practical solution...
Page 143 - Kensington towards the end of the nineteenth century - the Royal College of Science, the Royal School of Mines and the City and Guilds College.
Page 35 - Les combinaisons utiles, ce sont précisément les plus belles, je veux dire celles qui peuvent le mieux charmer cette sensibilité spéciale que tous les mathématiciens connaissent, mais que les profanes ignorent au point qu'ils sont souvent tentés d'en sourire.
Page 114 - He succeeded in obtaining photographs of the curves on the wax cylinder, a beam of light reflected from a small mirror attached 'to the vibrating disc of the phonograph being allowed to fall on a sensitive plate while the phonograph was slowly travelling.
Page 112 - Q, in a complex way, part of which is due to the fact that the theory does not take into account the redistribution of free counterions, ie the theory is a better description for non-ionic surfactants.
Page 35 - On peut s'étonner de voir invoquer la sensibilité à propos de démonstrations mathématiques qui, semble-t-il, ne peuvent intéresser que l'intelligence. Ce serait oublier le sentiment de la beauté mathématique, de l'harmonie des nombres et des formes, de l'élégance géométrique. C'est un vrai sentiment esthétique 1 que tous les vrais mathématiciens connaissent.
Page 54 - ... seek to take the next step, whatever that may be. So, I am heartily in favor of this and I hope the Congress will approve it. The CHAIRMAN. Thank you, Governor Gruening. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1944. STATEMENT OF HON. ANTHONY J. DIMOND, DELEGATE FROM THE TERRITORY OF ALASKA The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Dimond, it is a matter of deep regret to all of us that you are leaving us at this time. Mr. DIMOND. Thank you. You are very gracious, Mr. Chairman. The CHAIRMAN. And turning to greener fields. Mr. DIMOND....
Page 34 - We had hoped that we might again have heard from his mouth some such luminous address as that which he gave at Rome ; but it was not to be, and the loss of France in his death affects the whole world. It was in 1900 that, as president of the Royal Astronomical Society, I had the privilege of handing to Poincare the medal of the Society, and I then attempted to give an appreciation of his work on the theory of the tides, on figures of equilibrium of rotating fluid and on the problem of the three bodies....
Page 35 - Poincare' s account, in the chapter from which I have already quoted, of the manner in which he proceeded in attacking a mathematical problem. He describes the unconscious working of the mind, so that his conclusions appeared to his conscious self as revelations from another world. I suspect that we have all been aware of something of the same sort, and like Poincare have also found that the revelations were not always to be trusted. Both the pure and the applied mathematician are in search of truth,...

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