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" Countances, we entered an omnibus to go some place or other. At the moment when I put my foot on the step the idea came to me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have paved the way for it... "
The Illusion of Conscious Will - Page 82
by Daniel M. Wegner - 2002 - 405 pages
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Before the Gates of Excellence: The Determinants of Creative Genius

R. A. Ochse, R. Ochse - Psychology - 1990 - 318 pages
...inspiration, including the following description of his insight into the nature of Fuchsian functions: The changes of travel made me forget my mathematical...Having reached Coutances, we entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At the moment when I put my foot on the step the idea came to me, without anything...
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The Poincaré Half-plane: A Gateway to Modern Geometry

Saul Stahl - Geometry, Non-Euclidean - 1993 - 320 pages
...enough to have Poincare's own words (Science and Method) to describe the next step. "Just at this time I left Caen, where I was then living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the school of mines. The changes of travel made me forget...
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Genius: The Natural History of Creativity

H. J. Eysenck - Business & Economics - 1995 - 360 pages
...succeeded without difficulty in forming the series I have called theta-Fuchsian. Just at this time I left Caen, where I was then living, to go on a geologic...Having reached Coutances, we entered an omnibus to go to some place or other. At the moment when I put my foot in the step the idea came to me, without anything...
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Pierre-Simon Laplace Philosophical Essay on Probabilities: Translated from ...

Pierre-Simon Laplace - Mathematics - 1998 - 292 pages
...hypergeometric series; I had only to write out the results, which took but a few hours. Just at this time I left Caen, where I was then living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the school of mines. The changes of travel made me forget...
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Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Science: A Multiple Code Theory

Wilma Bucci - Psychology - 1997 - 388 pages
...Illumination phase, the connection that has been sought appears, as if coming from outside: Just at this time I left Caen, where I was then living, to go on a geologic...made me forget my mathematical work. Having reached (xat, tances. we entered an omnibus to go some place or other. At the moment when 1 put m> foot on...
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Intuition: The Inside Story : Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Robbie Davis-Floyd, P. Sven Arvidson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1997 - 236 pages
...which he left on a "geological excursion." Poincare (Harman and Rheingold i984: 28—29) continued: >* The changes of travel made me forget my mathematical work. Having reached c Coutances, we entered an omnibus to go some place or other. At that moment 2 when I put my foot on...
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Flavors of Geometry

Silvio Levy - Mathematics - 1997 - 212 pages
...succeeded without difficulty in forming the series I have called theta-Fuchsian. Just at this time I left Caen, where I was then living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the school of mines. The changes of travel made me forget...
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Freud’s Philosophy of the Unconscious

D.L. Smith - Philosophy - 1999 - 242 pages
...go on holiday in order to forget about his mathematical concems. However: Having reached Coustances, we entered an omnibus to go some place or other. At the moment I put my foot on the step the idea came to me, without anything in my former thoughts seeming to have...
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Mathematical Expeditions: Chronicles by the Explorers

Reinhard Laubenbacher, David Pengelley - Mathematics - 2000 - 292 pages
...the context of his discovery relating hyperbolic geometry to Fuchsian functions: Just at this time I left Caen, where I was then living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the school of mines. The changes of travel made me forget...
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Mathematics and Its History

John Stillwell - Mathematics - 2004 - 576 pages
...understand them analytically when he was struck by an unexpected geometric inspiration: Just at this time I left Caen, where I was then living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the school of mines. The changes of travel made me forget...
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