... and blossom in his mind with an unfailing luxuriance. Every day he made the discovery of something which seemed to him exquisitely beautiful; the new toy was inexhaustible in its potentialities. In the intervals of applying algebra to the second book... Young Archimedes: And Other Stories - Page 299by Aldous Huxley - 1924 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
| Clifton Fadiman - Mathematics - 1997 - 326 pages
...intervals of applying algebra to the second book of Euclid, we experimented with circles; we stuck bamboos into the parched earth, measured their shadows...us his paper crystal; and when I asked him how he had managed to make it, he merely smiled and said it had been so easy. I looked at Elizabeth and laughed.... | |
| Graham F. Carey - Mathematics - 1997 - 518 pages
...and he_i in (5.124). Compare this result with (5.123). Chapter 6 MULTILEVELS AND DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION Sometimes for fun, we cut and folded sheets of paper so as to make cubes and pyramids. Aldous Huxley It is quite a three-pipe problem. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 6.1 Introduction Effective preconditioning... | |
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