 Lagrange indeed, whose power over symbols is so unbounded that the possession of it seems to have made him capricious, has treated the subject of Variations without the foreign notation; this he rejects altogether; and, which is strange, has employed...  A Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry - Page viby Robert Woodhouse - 1819 - 264 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Woodhouse - Calculus - 1810 - 180 pages
...had used the fluxionary notation with points or dots, I must have invented symbols corresponding to S and the characters formed by means of it. But, the...the fluxions or differentials of quantities are not 'expressed by him, but solely the fluxionary or differential coefficients ; thus, if u be a function... | |
 | 1811 - 600 pages
...had used the fluxionary notation with points or dots, I must have invented symbols corresponding to i and the characters formed by means of it. But, the...with him, x is not the fluxion, but the variation of* ; the fluxions or differentials of quantities are not expressed by him, but solely the fluxionary or... | |
 | Paul Carus - Religion - 1897 - 832 pages
...treatise of Woodhouse on this subject we read regarding a certain new sign introduced, that M. Lagrange's "power over symbols is so unbounded that the possession of it seems to have made him capricious." Lagrange himself was conscious of his wonderful capabilities in this direction. His was a time when... | |
 | Joseph Louis Lagrange - Mathematics - 1898 - 188 pages
...treatise of Woodhouse on this subject we read regarding a certain new sign introduced, that M. Lagrange's "power over symbols is so unbounded that the possession of it seems to have made him capricious." Lagrange himself was conscious of his wonderful capacities in this direction. His was a time when geometry,... | |
| |
