 ... intractable; though the whole world should be destroyed, one will be one, and three will be three, and no art whatever can change their nature. You may put a mark before one, which it will obey ; it submits to be taken away from another number greater...  The Principles of Algebra - Page ixby William Frend - 1796Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1800 - 614 pages
...untraciable : though the whole world fliould be dcftroyed, one will be one, and thr^e will be three 5 aod no art whatever can change their nature. You may put...from a number lefs than itfelf is ridiculous. Yet this is attempted" by aj^ebraifts, who talk of a number lefs than nothing, of multiplying a negative... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...respects his reason informs him that it is very untractable : though the whole world should be destroyed, one will be one, and three will be three ; and no...may put a mark before one, which it will obey : it submits to be taken away from a number greater than itself, but to attempt to take it away from a number... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1834 - 564 pages
...number ; but in other respecta it is very intractable; though the whole world should be destroyed, one will be one, and three will be three, and no art...may put a mark before one, which it will obey; it submits to be taken away from another number greater than itself, but to attempt to take it away from... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1834 - 562 pages
...number ; but in other respects it is very intractable; though the whole world should be destroyed, one will be one, and three will be three, and no art...may put a mark before one, which it will obey ; it submits to be taken away from another number greater than itself, but to attempt to take it away from... | |
 | Alexander Macfarlane - Physicists - 1916 - 162 pages
...another number; but in other respects it is very intractable; though the whole world should be destroyed, one will be one, and three will be three, and no art...may put a mark before one, which it will obey; it submits to be taken away from a number greater than itself, but to attempt to take it away from a number... | |
 | William Davis, John Hampshire - Mathematics - 1809 - 582 pages
...-\- y. Mr. Frcnd, in the preface to his algebra, page 10, fays, *' You mayput a mark before a number, which it will obey : it fubmits to be taken away from...greater than itfelf, but to attempt to take it away fiom a number lefs than itfelf is ridiculous. Yet this is attempted by algebraifts, &rc." It is well... | |
 | Gert Schubring - Mathematics - 2005 - 700 pages
...operations must not change this “nature” in any way. Concerning positive numbers, he proclaimed: No art whatever can change their nature. You may put a mark before one, which it will obey: it submits to be taken away from another number greater than itself, but to attempt to take it away from... | |
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