 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 a number less than itself is ridiculous. Yet this is attempted by algebraists, who talk of a number...  The Principles of Algebra - Page ixby William Frend - 1796Full view - About this book
 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1800 - 614 pages
...take it away, 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 number into a negative number and thus produ-, cing a pofitive number, of a number being imaginary. Hence they talk of two roots to every... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - American literature - 1805 - 500 pages
...number less than itself is ridiculous. Yet this is attempted by algebraists, who talk of a number lets than nothing, of multiplying a negative number into a negative number and thus producing a positive number, and of a number being imaginary. Hence they talk of two roots to every equation of... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1834 - 564 pages
...number less than itself is ridiculous. Yet this is attempted by algebraists, who talk of a number less than nothing, of multiplying a negative number into a negative number, and thus producing a positive number, of a number being imaginary. Hence they talk of two roots to every equation of the... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1834 - 562 pages
...number less than itself is ridiculous. Yet this is attempted by algebraists, who talk of a number less than nothing, of multiplying a negative number into a negative number, and thus producing a positive number, of a number being imaginary. Hence they talk of two roots to every equation of the... | |
 | Alexander Macfarlane - Physicists - 1916 - 162 pages
...number less than itself is ridiculous. Yet this is attempted by algebraists who talk of a number less than nothing; of multiplying a negative number into a negative number and thus producing a positive number; of a number being imaginary. Hence they talk of two roots'to every equation of the... | |
 | Alexander Macfarlane - Mathematicians - 1916 - 164 pages
...number less than itself is ridiculous. Yet this is attempted by algebraists who talk of a number less than nothing ; of multiplying a negative number into a negative number and thus producing a positive number; of a number being imaginary. Hence they talk of two roots_to every equation of the... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1982 - 380 pages
...number less than itself is ridiculous. Yet this is attempted by algebraists who talk of a number less than nothing; of multiplying a negative number into a negative number and thus producing a positive number; of a number being imaginary. Hence they talk of two roots to every equation of the... | |
 | Gert Schubring - Mathematics - 2005 - 700 pages
...number less than itself is ridiculous. Yet this is attempted by algebraists, who talk of a number less than nothing, of multiplying a negative number into a negative number and thus producing a positive number, of a number being imaginary. Hence they talk of two roots to every equation of the... | |
 | Jeremy Kilpatrick - Education - 2005 - 280 pages
...mathematician, produced an algebra text, Principles of Algebra, in which he avoided their use. He argued that "multiplying a negative number into a negative number and thus producing a positive number" finds most supporters "amongst those who love to take things upon trust and hate the... | |
 | Alberto A. MartÃnez - Mathematics - 2006 - 288 pages
...number less than itself is ridiculous. Yet this is attempted by algebraists, who talk of a number less than nothing, of multiplying a negative number into a negative number and thus producing a positive number, of a number being imaginary. Hence they talk of two roots to every equation of the... | |
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