New knowledge, when to any purpose, must come by contemplation of old knowledge in every matter which concerns thought ; mechanical contrivance sometimes, not very often, escapes this rule. All the men who are now called discoverers, in every matter ruled... Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society - Page 455by American Mathematical Society - 1916Full view - About this book
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