 We believe that the mathematical reader will especially profit by a perusal of the large type portion of this Volume, as he will thus be forced to think out for himself what he has been too often accustomed to reach by a mere mechanical application of...  Treatise on Natural Philosophy - Page viby William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - 1867 - 727 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Balfour Stewart - Heat - 1866 - 440 pages
...various important branches, such as the Deformation of Elastic Solids and the Figure of the Earth. " We believe that the mathematical reader will especially...more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance upon mathematical symbols ; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider... | |
 | Edward Augustus Freeman - Great Britain - 1867 - 758 pages
...the Statics of a Particle, enters into considerable detail on the important subject of Attraction. " We believe that the mathematical reader will especially...more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance upon mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Quaternions - 1867 - 366 pages
...various important branches, such as the Deformation of Elastic Solids and the Figure of the Earth. " We believe that the mathematical reader will especially...more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance upon mathematical symbols ; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1867 - 364 pages
...devoted to Statics. " Thus closes the First Division of the Work, which is strictly preliminary. " We believe that the mathematical reader will especially...more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance upon mathematical symbols ; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Quaternions - 1867 - 364 pages
...the Deformation of Elastic Solids and the Figure of the Earth. 4 CLARENDON PRESS SERIES. "We bslieve that the mathematical reader will especially profit...more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance upou mathematical symbols ; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1914 - 926 pages
...a theoretical treatment. Mr. Ashford quotes from Thomson and Tail's standard treatise a remark that "Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too...mathematical symbols, for the student is only too apt to consider the formula, and not the fact, as the physical reality." And he has set himself the task of... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Peter Guthrie Tait - Calculators - 1890 - 536 pages
...edition. A great improvement has been made in the treatment of Lagranges Generalized Equations of Motion. We believe that the mathematical reader will especially...of analysis. Nothing can be more fatal to progress tUatTa" too confident reliance on mathematical symbols ; for the student is only too apt to take the... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 646 pages
...to the earlier sections. For the benefit of mathematicians the authors added this significant hint We believe that the mathematical reader will especially...reach by a mere mechanical application of analysis. Also this warning Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical... | |
 | Frederick J. E. Woodbridge - 1926 - 268 pages
...simplest terms what happens when three electrons meet one another. In those days it was urged that 'nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too...mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt. . .to consider the formula and not the fact as the physical reality'.1 But to-day (whether rightly or wrongly)... | |
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