Excerpt from The Monist, Vol. 4 Remarks given at the opening of the Mathematical and Astronomical Con gress, at Chicago, Ill. Poncelet on, and not inconsiderable are their individual achieve ments. But the developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and to split into diverse branches. In the same proportion the attention bestowed upon it by the general scien tific public diminishes. It became almost the custom to regard modern ...
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Excerpt from The Monist, Vol. 4 Remarks given at the opening of the Mathematical and Astronomical Con gress, at Chicago, Ill. Poncelet on, and not inconsiderable are their individual achieve ments. But the developing science departs at the same time more and more from its original scope and purpose and threatens to sacrifice its earlier unity and to split into diverse branches. In the same proportion the attention bestowed upon it by the general scien tific public diminishes. It became almost the custom to regard modern mathematical speculation as something having no general interest or importance, and the proposal has Often been made that, at least for purpose of instruction, all results be formulated from the same standpoints as in the earlier period. Such conditions were unquestionably to be regretted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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