The common sense of the exact sciences
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The common sense of the exact sciences
（Cambridge library collection, . Physical sciences）
Cambridge University Press, 2014
- : pbk
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Kegan Paul, Trench , 1885
"digitally printed version 2014"--T.p. verso
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Description
A student of Trinity College and a member of the Cambridge Apostles, William Kingdon Clifford (1845-79) graduated as second wrangler in the mathematical tripos, became a professor of applied mathematics at University College London in 1871, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1874. The present work was begun by Clifford during a remarkably productive period of ill health, yet it remained unfinished at his death. The statistician and philosopher of science Karl Pearson (1857-1936) was invited to edit and complete the work, finally publishing it in 1885. It tackles five of the most fundamental areas of mathematics - number, space, quantity, position and motion - explaining each one in the most basic terms, as well as deriving several original results. Also demonstrating the rationale behind these five concepts, the book particularly pleased a later Cambridge mathematician, Bertrand Russell, who read it as a teenager.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1. Number
- 2. Space
- 3. Quantity
- 4. Position
- 5. Motion.
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