Word: algebraic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...frequent appeals to a better knowledge of psychology and child-culture, points out the need of leaving a study when the educational value is got out of it, and recommends the earlier introduction of secondary studies. The committee strongly urge the advisability of beginning Latin one year earlier and algebra two years earlier...
During the Mohammedan government at Bagdad, science made great headway. The Arabians were essentially a scientific people. They invented a new branch of mathematics, algebra, and were skilful in chemistry and astronomy. Constantinople became the greatest seat of learning in the world. With the fall of the Turkish Empire came the Renaissance, and Greek learning was spread throughout Europe. It was accompanied by a decay in morals which pervaded the whole social organization. This explains the hostile attitude which the church took toward the New Learning...
...value, we think, will appear if it is used as an introduction to the study of Shakspere. We are pleased to find in it none of the absurdities of the "inductive" school of criticism, which makes what should be a literary work seem like a text-book on graphic algebra or spherical geometry. The method here is absolutely sane and sound, the style is lucidity itself, fact is everywhere kept clear from inference, and there is no gush. There is not a silly sentence in the book. What reader of Dowden or Fleay can say that...
Graduate Club. Boole's Algebra of Logic. Professor J. M. Peirce. G. A. R. Hall, Quincy Square...
Graduate Club. Boole's Algebra of Logic. Professor J. M. Peirce. G. A. R. Hall, Quincy Square...