 | Augustus De Morgan - 1831 - 108 pages
...shall soon come. Above all, he must reject the definition still sometimes given of the quantity - a, that it is less than nothing. It is astonishing that...either of which is ten thousand times more possible. These remarks do not apply to such an expression as — b + a, which we sometimes write instead of... | |
 | Mathematics - 1836 - 530 pages
...shall soon come. Above all, he must reject the definition still sometimes given of the quantity - a, that it is less than nothing. It is astonishing that...either of which is ten thousand times more possible. These remarks do not apply to such an expression as — b + a, which we sometimes write instead of... | |
 | Mathematics - 1836 - 352 pages
...shall soon come. Above all, he must reject the definition still sometimes given of the quantity - a, that it is less than nothing. It is astonishing that...than nothing; above all, that the notion should have outmost luminous writers on algebra m our lived the belief in judicial astrology and " li1- the existence... | |
 | Arthur Lefevre - Algebra - 1896 - 242 pages
...one reads, " Above all, he must reject the definition, still sometimes given of the quantity — a, that it is less than nothing. It is astonishing that...either of which is ten thousand times more possible." The truly astonishing thing concerning the human intellect is that such a man as l)e Morgan could have... | |
 | Augustus De Morgan - Algebra - 1898 - 316 pages
...shall soon come. Above all, he must reject the definition still sometimes given of the quantity — a, that it is less than nothing. It is astonishing that...either of which is ten thousand times more possible. These remarks do not apply to such an expression as — b -\- a, which we sometimes write instead of... | |
 | Frank Swetz - Mathematics - 1995 - 322 pages
...add and subtract. Above all he must reject the definition still sometimes given of the quantity -a that it is less than nothing. ... It is astonishing...notion should have outlived the belief in judicial astronomy and the existence of witches, either of which is ten thousand times more possible. There... | |
 | Alberto A. Martínez - Mathematics - 2006 - 288 pages
...he [the student of algebra] must reject the definition still sometimes given of the quantity —a, that it is less than nothing. It is astonishing that...witches, either of which is ten thousand times more possible.5" To make sense of the operations with the negative sign, De Morgan recommended that the... | |
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... let him, for the present, reject the example in which it occurs, and defer the consideration of such equations until he has read the explanation of them to which we shall soon come. Above all, he must reject the definition still sometimes given of... 