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Page 46
... difficult to grasp . There is , for instance , a famous bone which was found at Sterkfontein in South Africa , and is clearly part of the pelvis of some creature which bears resemblances both to the great apes and to the human species ...
... difficult to grasp . There is , for instance , a famous bone which was found at Sterkfontein in South Africa , and is clearly part of the pelvis of some creature which bears resemblances both to the great apes and to the human species ...
Page 65
... difficulty in ordinary English ; it will become apparent that the mathe- matical symbols , which at first sight scare off some people who have got into their heads the foolish notion that mathematics is too difficult for them , are ...
... difficulty in ordinary English ; it will become apparent that the mathe- matical symbols , which at first sight scare off some people who have got into their heads the foolish notion that mathematics is too difficult for them , are ...
Page 142
... difficult to anyone with the rudiments of a mathematical train- ing , but as this book is addressed to people who do ... difficulty about it , except that , unfortunately , the official way of expressing it strikes most people as being ...
... difficult to anyone with the rudiments of a mathematical train- ing , but as this book is addressed to people who do ... difficulty about it , except that , unfortunately , the official way of expressing it strikes most people as being ...
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