A key to A treatise on arithmetic
Author : James Hamblin Smith
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Page : 434 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : James Hamblin Smith
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Page : 434 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : James Hamblin Smith
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Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,15 MB
Release : 1883
Category : Arithmetic
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Author : Colin MacLaurin
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Page : 482 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 1742
Category : Mathematics
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Author : Thomas Tate (mathematical master.)
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Page : 152 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 1847
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Author : Thomas TATE (Mathematical Master, Training College, Battersea.)
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Page : 144 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 1847
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Author : James Hamblin Smith
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Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 1876
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Author : Charles Hutton
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Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 1837
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Author : John Bascombe Lock
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Page : 378 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Anthony NESBIT
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Page : 386 pages
File Size : 31,45 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : Loren Graham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,81 MB
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0674032934
In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Name Worshipping. Exiled to remote Russian outposts, the monks and their mystical movement went underground. Ultimately, they came across Russian intellectuals who embraced Name Worshipping—and who would achieve one of the biggest mathematical breakthroughs of the twentieth century, going beyond recent French achievements. Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor take us on an exciting mathematical mystery tour as they unravel a bizarre tale of political struggles, psychological crises, sexual complexities, and ethical dilemmas. At the core of this book is the contest between French and Russian mathematicians who sought new answers to one of the oldest puzzles in math: the nature of infinity. The French school chased rationalist solutions. The Russian mathematicians, notably Dmitri Egorov and Nikolai Luzin—who founded the famous Moscow School of Mathematics—were inspired by mystical insights attained during Name Worshipping. Their religious practice appears to have opened to them visions into the infinite—and led to the founding of descriptive set theory. The men and women of the leading French and Russian mathematical schools are central characters in this absorbing tale that could not be told until now. Naming Infinity is a poignant human interest story that raises provocative questions about science and religion, intuition and creativity.