How many things are there in holy Scripture which may not well be understood without some meane skill in Geometry? The Fabricke and bignesse of Noah's Arke: The Sciagraphy of the Temple set out by Ezechiel, Who may understand, but he that is skilfull in these Arts? I speake not of many and sundry words both in the New and Old Testaments, whose genuine and proper signification is merely Geometricall: And cannot well be conceived but of a Geometer.

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It is chiefly through the labors of Gibbs and Heaviside that an analysis has been perfected which not only does away with the unnecessary complexity and artificiality of other analyses but offers a strictly natural and therefore as direct and simple a substitute as possible, and, at the same time in no wise is at variance, but runs paralel to them.

THIS NEW, yet old method is VECTOR ANALYSIS; it COMBINES within itself most of the advantages of both Quaternions and of Cartesian Analysis.

The...

In re-writing the Solid Geometry the authors have consistently carried out the distinctive features described in the preface of the Plane Geometry. Mention is here made only of certain matters which are particularly emphasized in the Solid Geometry.

Owing to the greater maturity of the pupils it has been possible to make the logical structure of the Solid Geometry more prominent than in the Plane Geometry. The axioms are stated and applied at the precise points where they are to be used. Theo...

Arithmetic means dealing logically with facts which we know (about questions of number).

“Logically”; that is to say, in accordance with the “Logos” or hidden wisdom, i.e. the laws of normal action of the human mind.

For instance, you are asked what will have to be paid for six pounds of sugar at 3d. a pound. You multiply the six by the three. That is not because of any property of sugar, or of the copper of which the pennies are made. You would have done the same if the thing bough...

Het Nederlandse wiskundeonderwijs is volop in beweging. Curricula worden herzien en nieuwe digitale technologieën vinden hun weg naar het klaslokaal. Ook de wiskundedidactiek – de specifieke kennis over het leren en onderwijzen van wiskunde – ontwikkelt zich voortdurend. Over de huidige stand van zaken van dit vakgebied wil dit boek studenten, leraren, lerarenopleiders, auteurs en trainers informeren.

In drie delen biedt dit boek leraren handvatten om hun wiskundig-didactische vaardighed...

Deze inleiding tot de kansrekening richt zich op studenten van diverse studierichtingen zoals data-, ingenieurs- en natuurwetenschappen aan universiteit en hogeschool, maar ook op wiskundeleraren en eenieder die meer wil weten wat kansrekening inhoudt en hoe het wordt gebruikt. Inzicht en begrip staan voorop – hiertoe worden vele motiverende en leerzame voorbeelden en opgaven gegeven. Het boek behandelt de centrale begrippen en de belangrijkste kansverdelingen

uit de kansrekening, maar best...

Special attention has been paid to the requirements of the College Entrance Board. The book contains more material than is required for some first courses in Trigonometry, but the matter has been so arranged that the teacher can make such omissions as will suit his particular needs.

The trigonometric functions are defined as ratios; first for acute angles in right triangles, and then these definitions are extended to angles in general by means of coordinates.

The student is first taught to...

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In dertien afzonderlijke hoofdstukken worden theorie en opgaven als compleet geheel behandeld van: Algebra, analyse, meetkunde, statistiek kansrekening, vectoralgebra, grafen en matrices, rijen en reeksen, dynamische modellen, logica, perspectief en complexe getallen. Van de, in het onderwijs sinds lang gebruikte didactische, concentrische leermethode van Prof. Herbart, ...

Why did the stock market crash more than 500 points on a single Monday in 1987? Why do ancient species often remain stable in the fossil record for millions of years and then suddenly disappear? In a world where nice guys often finish last, why do humans value trust and cooperation? At first glance these questions don't appear to have anything in common, but in fact every one of these statements refers to a complex system. The science of complexity studies how single elements, such as a speci...

The three fixed lights, or windows, subsequently exchanged for our lesser luminaries, were explained one hundred and fifty years ago to signify "the three Persons, Father, Son, Holy Ghost; " and were used to find out the meridian, "when the sun leaves the south, and breaks in at the west window of the Lodge." While the "mossy bed," the ancient signs of disgust and recognition, as well as the primitive name of a Master Mason, are equally obscure at the present day; having been swept away, alon...