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Two MATHEMATICS Classics, Volume I
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Two MATHEMATICS Classics, Volume I
The Number Concept, PLUS, The Romance of Mathematics
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
The Number Concept,
Its Origin and Development, by Levi Leonard Conant
Chapter I.
Counting
Chapter II.
Number System Limits
Chapter III.
Origin of Number Words
Chapter IV.
Origin of Number Words (continued)
Chapter V.
Miscellaneous Number Bases
Chapter VI.
The Quinary System
Chapter VII.
The Vigesimal System
The Romance of Mathematics,
Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with Some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion, by P. Hampson
I. Some Remarks on Female Education:
Cambridge Man's Powers of Application. — Torturing Ingenuity of Examiners. — Slaying an Enemy. — ‘Concentration.’ — ‘Tangential Action.’ — ‘Gravity’
II. Lecture on the Theory of Brain Waves and the Transmigration and Potentiality of Mental Forces
III. The Social Properties of a Conic Section, and the Theory of Polemical Mathematics:
‘Circle.’ — ‘Parabola.’ — ‘Ellipse.’ ‘Eccentricity of Curves’
IV. The Social Properties of a Conic Section (continued):
‘Ellipse.’ — Most favoured State. — Alarming Result of Suppression of House of Lords. — Analogies of Nature. — Directrix. — Contact of Curves and States. — ‘Hyperbola.’ — Problems. — Radical Axis and Patriotism. — Extension of Franchise to Women. — Correspondence
V. Social Forces, with some Account of Polemical Kinematics:
The Use of Imagination in Scientific Discovery. — Kinetic and Potential Energy. — Social Statics and Dynamics. — Attractive Forces. — Cohesion. — Formation of States. — Inertia. — Dr. Tyndall on Social Forces
VI. Social Forces (continued): Polemical Statics and Dynamics:
‘Personal Equation.’ — Public Opinion, how calculated. — Impulsive Forces. — Friction. — Progress
VII. Laws of Political Motion:
M. Auguste Comte on Political Science. — First Law of Motion. — The Biology of Politics. — Stages of Growth and Decay of States. — Doctrine of Nationality. — Doctrine of Independence. — Law of Morality. — Ignorance of Electors and Selfishness of Statesmen opposed to Action of Law. — Final ‘Reign of Law’
VIII. The Principle of Polemical Cohesion:
Centralization. — Co-operation of States. — Marriage. — Trade Unions. — International Law
Extracts from the Diary of the Lady Professor
Conclusion
The Number Concept, PLUS, The Romance of Mathematics
This edition features a linked Table of Contents.
CONTENTS
The Number Concept,
Its Origin and Development, by Levi Leonard Conant
Chapter I.
Counting
Chapter II.
Number System Limits
Chapter III.
Origin of Number Words
Chapter IV.
Origin of Number Words (continued)
Chapter V.
Miscellaneous Number Bases
Chapter VI.
The Quinary System
Chapter VII.
The Vigesimal System
The Romance of Mathematics,
Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with Some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion, by P. Hampson
I. Some Remarks on Female Education:
Cambridge Man's Powers of Application. — Torturing Ingenuity of Examiners. — Slaying an Enemy. — ‘Concentration.’ — ‘Tangential Action.’ — ‘Gravity’
II. Lecture on the Theory of Brain Waves and the Transmigration and Potentiality of Mental Forces
III. The Social Properties of a Conic Section, and the Theory of Polemical Mathematics:
‘Circle.’ — ‘Parabola.’ — ‘Ellipse.’ ‘Eccentricity of Curves’
IV. The Social Properties of a Conic Section (continued):
‘Ellipse.’ — Most favoured State. — Alarming Result of Suppression of House of Lords. — Analogies of Nature. — Directrix. — Contact of Curves and States. — ‘Hyperbola.’ — Problems. — Radical Axis and Patriotism. — Extension of Franchise to Women. — Correspondence
V. Social Forces, with some Account of Polemical Kinematics:
The Use of Imagination in Scientific Discovery. — Kinetic and Potential Energy. — Social Statics and Dynamics. — Attractive Forces. — Cohesion. — Formation of States. — Inertia. — Dr. Tyndall on Social Forces
VI. Social Forces (continued): Polemical Statics and Dynamics:
‘Personal Equation.’ — Public Opinion, how calculated. — Impulsive Forces. — Friction. — Progress
VII. Laws of Political Motion:
M. Auguste Comte on Political Science. — First Law of Motion. — The Biology of Politics. — Stages of Growth and Decay of States. — Doctrine of Nationality. — Doctrine of Independence. — Law of Morality. — Ignorance of Electors and Selfishness of Statesmen opposed to Action of Law. — Final ‘Reign of Law’
VIII. The Principle of Polemical Cohesion:
Centralization. — Co-operation of States. — Marriage. — Trade Unions. — International Law
Extracts from the Diary of the Lady Professor
Conclusion
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