He is taught elementary mathematics, that he may understand all those relations of number and form, upon which the transactions of men, associated in complicated societies, are built, and that he may have some practice in deductive reasoning.

"About Ladyday 1817 I began to read mathematics with Mr Rogers (formerly, I think, a Fellow of Sidney College, and an indifferent mathematician of the Cambridge school), who had succeeded a Mr Tweed as assistant to Mr Crosse in the school.

He had a severe education, studying mathematics, poetry, music, rhetoric, and blending these with philosophy.

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Will he say that they naturally understand the mathematics which men are ignorant of?

"Do you know any mathematics?"

Airy regarded mathematics as simply a useful machine for the solution of practical problems and arriving at practical results.

; how acceptance of a duo-decimal (12) base would simplify mathematics.

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Hang me, if he hath any more mathematics than will serve to count the clock, or tell the meridian hour by rumbling of his paunch.

" Maclaurin, a Scotch physicist, checked Koenig's computations and reported to the Royal Society in London in 1743 that he found a solution in exact accord with Maraldi's measurements, thereby completely justifying the mathematics of the bee architect.

This is all in the incidental play of the Nursery School, and yet we might say that a child thus occupied is learning mathematics more than anything else.

After making all our arrangements for books and lectures, he suddenly turned to my daughter, and, pointing to the flounces on her dress, her jaunty hat, and some flowers in a buttonhole, he smiled, and said: "All this, and yet you love mathematics?"

I have often heard military men talk of swot, meaning thereby mathematics; and persons eminent in that science are termed "good swots."

He had some interesting talk with Malebranche and Boileau, the former of whom "very much praised Mr Newton's mathematics; shook his head at the name of Hobbes, and told me he thought him a pauvre esprit.

I then returned, put my lecture notes in order, wrote my piece of Latin prose, and then employed myself on the subject which I was reading for the time: usually taking mathematics at this hour.

He, too, finds in mathematics the example for all science, and holds that whatever transcends mathematics transcends the reason.

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Freydis could not withstand mathematics.

Maria left the public school at sixteen, and for a year attended a private school; then, loving mathematics, and being deeply interested in her father's studies, she became at seventeen his helper in the work of the Coast Survey.

With some people this is the most popular of all his books; it is certainly the most successful attempt he ever made to combine mathematics and humour.

He held logic and metaphysics in the utmost contempt; and he scarce considered mathematics, and natural philosophy, unless to turn them into ridicule.

He cultivated mathematics and fortification, and made rapid progress in his study of the French language.

Descartes, the rationalist, had despised experience, and Bacon, the empiricist, had despised mathematics; but Locke aims to show that while the reason is the instrument of science, demonstration its form, and the realm of knowledge wider than experience, yet this instrument and this form are dependent for their content on a supply of material from the senses.

He was an indifferent penman, and always disliked mathematics; but was noted by masters and mates as of quick temper, eager for adventures, prone to sports, always more ready to give a blow than to take one, affectionate, though resentful.