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... 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 103
... difficult to decide precisely . This is one of the fields in which modern mathematics , powerful though it is , remains rather helpless . It is often possible , if one knows sufficient about a system , to calculate what its end - state ...
... difficult to decide precisely . This is one of the fields in which modern mathematics , powerful though it is , remains rather helpless . It is often possible , if one knows sufficient about a system , to calculate what its end - state ...
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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