It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of one obvious fact in terms of something equally .. obvious.
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrat… - Oliver Heaviside
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrat…
- Oliver Heaviside
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in c… - Oliver Heaviside
Ohm (a distinguished mathematician, be it noted) brought into order a host of puzzling facts connecting electromotive force and electric current in c…
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of … - Oliver Heaviside
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the proof of …
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientifi… - Oliver Heaviside
Now, in the development of our knowledge of the workings of Nature out of the tremendously complex assemblage of phenomena presented to the scientifi…
Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory, howev… - Oliver Heaviside
Facts are of not much use, considered as facts. They bewilder by their number and their apparent incoherency. Let them be digested into theory, howev…
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on. - Oliver Heaviside
Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.
...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great. - Oliver Heaviside
...there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fell… - Oliver Heaviside
However absurd it may seem, I do in all seriousness hereby declare that I am animated mainly by philanthropic motives. I desire to do good to my fell…
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse. - Oliver Heaviside
Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.
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