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General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1916Original Publisher: Gorham PressSubjects: History / GeneralLiterary Criticism / PoetryPoetry / GeneralPoetry / American / GeneralNotes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1912.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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MAN and HIS LIFEBELTS BY E. T. Bell Baltimore THE WILLIAMS fcf WILKINS COMPANY 1938 COPYRIGHT, 1938 THE WILLIAMS WILKINS COMPANY Made In the United States of America Published October, 1938 COMPOSED AND FEINTED AT THE WAVERLY PRESS, INC. TOK THE WHXIAMS WILKINS COMPANY BALTIMOKE, Mr amp gt. U. S, A. a 27 TO GRACE, whose fireside chats on Life are to blame for this book. Je ne pense point qu il y ait tant de malheur en nous, comme il y a de vanite, ny tant de malice comme de sottise Nous ne sommes pas si pleins de mal, comme d inanite nous ne sommes pas si miserables, comme nous sommes vils. Montaigne , Bk. I amp gt Ch JL. amp gt Dff Dcmocrttus et Heraclitus. Contents Chapter I INTRODUCTION PROSPECT Sink or swim. Daniel speaks. Agreements and dis agreements. Two habits of mind. Belts for one and all. I Chapter 2 THE LIFEBELT OF LIFEBELTS RELIGION, I Skin and air. The everlasting quot if. quot Comfort for the comfortable 2.9 Chapter j THE CELESTIAL CITY RELIGION, II A. D. 413 and now. Augustinian righteousness. Au gustinian justice , 40 Chapter 4 MAN OVERBOARD RELIGION, III Then and now. Origin of European civilization. Beneficiaries of righteousness. Alliances, holy and other. Retreat from stupidity. The best they could do 57 Chapter 5 THROUGH NATURE TO REVOLUTION SCIENCE, I Survival of the fittest. A new model Victorious tradition. Further victories. Isaac Newton and Ben jamin Franklin 89 vii viii Contents Chapter 6 THE ROMANTIC MODEL DEMOCRACY Prophet of Democracy, Portrait of a reformer. The Gospel according to Saint Jean. Bricks in the lifebelt, The Gospel according to Saint Marx . . . 121 Chapter J AT IT AGAIN INDUSTRY, I INVENTION, I ECONOMICS, I Sunk. Holy ground. Resurrection of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Father Adam s Devil. The Foursquare Jos pel of Economics 1 5 Chapter S DID IT INVENTION, II ECONOMICS, II INDUSTRY, II The singular conversion. Theory and practice of want. Museum pieces - . - 193 Chapter g PROFITS AND LOSSES INVENTION, III SCIENCE II Unearned Increment. Is it a dream Inquisitive mon keys. Pathetic baboons. Science and scientists - 244 Chapter o EXPLORING THE SOUL PSYCHOLOGY EDUCATION The best pre-war stock. Selling the goods. Know thy neighbor. Know nothing. The real sense of it all , , , , , 8i Chapter THE LIFELINE SCIENCE, III The modern cloister. The shifting battle. Uncoiling the lifeline , 16 POSTSCRIPT 337 Chapter I INTRODUCTION. PROSPECT A Daniel come to judgment SHAKESPEARE. I. SINK OR SWIM WHEN Noah herded his wife, his sons, his sons wives, and a menagerie that would have done credit to the Greatest Show on Earth aboard the Ark, he carried no lifebelts and no insurance whatever. He needed none. Jehovah had contracted to let him and his Ark down gently, as was duly done, after the greatest rain in history, on the summit of Mount Ararat. There, according to missionaries who have seen it, the Ark rests to this day, a guaranty more substantial than a million rainbows that under the right conditions insurance is super fluous and lifebelts unnecessary. Since Noah s escape, our sinful race has somehow never found it prudent to forgo the paraphernalia of life-saving prescribed by insurance brokers before confiding itself, body, soul, and breeches to the Devil or the deep. Possibly a regrettable but on the whole understandable decline of faith, or a very human desire to let itself down rather than be let down, is responsible for humanity s misadventures in navigation since it walked down the gangplank of the Ark. Whatever the reason, if there is any, it seems to be a fact that every attempt of our kind to recover the dignity which Adam lost when the apple upset him has ended in 2 Man and His Lifebelts disaster, occasionally ludicrous enough, often sufficiently stupid to make the seraphim swear... ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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Chapters: Bartel Leendert Van Der Waerden, Otto E. Neugebauer, Leonard Eugene Dickson, Eric Temple Bell, Morris Kline, Dirk Jan Struik, Isaac Todhunter, Ivor Grattan-Guinness, Paul Tannery, Øystein Ore, Stephen Stigler, Colin Mclarty, Anders Hald, Baldassarre Boncompagni, W. W. Rouse Ball, K. V. Sarma, James Franklin, Amir Aczel, T. L. Heath, William Dunham, James R. Newman, Donald A. Gillies, Tom Whiteside, David Fowler, Jack Copeland, Carl Benjamin Boyer, Louis Charles Karpinski, Howard Eves, Florian Cajori, Joseph Dauben, Dietrich Mahnke, Hermann Hankel, Judith Grabiner, Detlef Laugwitz, Georges Ifrah, Karl Menninger, Michael Bernstein, Tsuruichi Hayashi, Asger Aaboe. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 120. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Otto Eduard Neugebauer (May 26, 1899 February 19, 1990) was an Austrian-American mathematician and historian of science who became known for his research on the history of astronomy and the other exact sciences in antiquity and into the Middle Ages. By studying clay tablets he discovered that the ancient Babylonians knew much more about mathematics and astronomy than had been previously realized. The National Academy of Sciences has called Neugebauer "the most original and productive scholar of the history of the exact sciences, perhaps of the history of science, of our age." Neugebauer began as a mathematician, turned first to Egyptian and Babylonian mathematics, and then took up the history of mathematical astronomy. In a career of sixty-five years, he largely created our current understanding of mathematical astronomy from Babylon and Egypt, through Greco-Roman antiquity, to India, Islam, and Europe of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. His influence on the study of the history of the exact sciences is profound. Neugebauer was born in Innsbruck...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=737813 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : James Clerk Maxwell, James Watt, Alexander Anderson, Peter Guthrie Tait, Eric Temple Bell, John Napier, John Arbuthnot, Thomas Muir, James Stirling, Robert Simson, Colin Maclaurin, James Gregory, John Sinclair, Andrew Russell Forsyth, John Playfair, David Gregory, Matthew Stewart, James Short, Joseph Henry Maclagan Wedderburn, John Craig, John Keill, John Leslie, George Udny Yule. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : James Clerk Maxwell (13 juin 1831 à Édimbourg, en Écosse - 5 novembre 1879) est un physicien et mathématicien écossais. Il est principalement connu pour avoir unifié en un seul ensemble d'équations, les équations de Maxwell, l'électricité, le magnétisme et l'induction, en incluant une importante modification du théorème d'Ampère. Ce fut à l'époque le modèle le plus unifié de l'électromagnétisme. Il est également célèbre pour avoir interprété, dans un article en quatre parties publié dans Philosophical Magazine intitulé On Physical Lines of Force, la lumière comme étant un phénomène électromagnétique en s'appuyant sur les travaux de Michael Faraday. Il a notamment démontré que les champs électriques et magnétiques se propagent dans l'espace sous la forme d'une onde et à la vitesse de la lumière. Ces deux découvertes permirent d'importants travaux ultérieurs notamment en relativité restreinte et en mécanique quantique. Il a également développé la distribution de Maxwell, une méthode statistique de description de la théorie cinétique des gaz. Maxwell est considéré par de nombreux physiciens comme le scientifique du siècle ayant eu le plus d'influence au siècle. Ses contributions à la science sont considérées par certains comme aussi importantes que celles d'Isaac Newton ou d'Albert Einstein...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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Chapters: Peter Mullan, Gilbert Mair, Eric Temple Bell, James Francis Edward Keith, Marino Keith, James Niven, William Aitken, William Keith, Charles Creighton, Jamie Mcleary, Frederick Martin, George Keith, George Kynoch, Jim Lovie, William Gibson, James Wales, Margaret Jope, Alexander Hall, Peter Buchan. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Peter Mullan (born 2 November 1959) is a Scottish actor and film-maker who has been appearing in films since 1990. Mullan, the sixth of eight children, was born in Peterhead in the northeast of Scotland, the son of Patricia, a nurse, and Charles Mullan, a lab technician who worked at Glasgow University. His family was Roman Catholic and moved to Mosspark, a working-class suburb on the south side of Glasgow. An alcoholic and latterly a sufferer from lung cancer, Mullan's father became increasingly tyrannical and abusive. For a brief period, Mullan was a member of a street gang while at high school, and worked as a bouncer in a number of south-side pubs. His father died on the day Mullan began studying economic history and drama at the University of Glasgow. At University, Mullan began acting, and continued stage acting after graduation. He had roles in several Scottish films, including Shallow Grave, Trainspotting, Braveheart, and a supporting role in Ken Loach's Riff-Raff. He also began to work as a writer and director, producing the short films Close, Good Day for the Bad Guys, and Fridge. His first full-length film Orphans won an award at the Venice Film Festival. Mullan's appearance in Loach's film My Name Is Joe, portraying a recovering alcoholic wrestling with his demons, won him the Best Actor Award at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. He appeared in the lead role in Brad Anderson's 2001 psychological/super...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3242135 ... Read more

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Here is the classic, much-read introduction to the craft and history of mathematics by E.T. Bell, a leading figure in mathematics in America for half a century. Men of Mathematics accessibly explains the major mathematics, from the geometry of the Greeks through Newton's calculus and on to the laws of probability, symbolic logic, and the fourth dimension. In addition, the book goes beyond pure mathematics to present a series of engrossing biographies of the great mathematicians -- an extraordinary number of whom lived bizarre or unusual lives. Finally, Men of Mathematics is also a history of ideas, tracing the majestic development of mathematical thought from ancient times to the twentieth century. This enduring work's clear, often humorous way of dealing with complex ideas makes it an ideal book for the non-mathematician. ... Read more

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Neither history nor mathematics
This book contains no mathematics, which is OK since it doesn't pretend to.Unfortunately this leads people to classify it as a history of mathematics, but it is not by any means a history book of any kind---the author makes up facts and distorts them to match his preconceptions and prejudices.Given the worth and content of this book, it's amazing that it's lasted this long.The best way to describe it is as pure kitsch.

This book should never be used as a textbook of any sort, and should never, ever be given to children to `inspire' them.

Men of Mathematics
A great classic for all those who want to find out about the history of mathematics. Highly recommended. Book arrived in the time frame and condition described by the seller.

A Good Biographical Account of Some of the Greatest Mathematicians of History
E.T. Bell's book, "Men of Mathematics" is an excellent account of some of the greatest mathematicians of all time, as well as discussions of some of the events surrounding those men's lives and accomplishments.

For mathematical buffs, a book like this can be rather an enthralling discussion, since numerous anecdotes surrounding the mathematicians' mathematical feats, their conflicts with other mathematicians, etc. are discussed.

I would highly recommend this book for anyone who's a lover of mathematics, or likes to learn about the giant intellects who largely shaped the directions human mathematical endeavors have taken.

Classic on history of math and mathematical physics
I bought this book because it is said that it served as inspiration for a young John Nash to start his career as a mathematician. And I was not disappointed.

As a sign of the times it was written in the style is stodgy, but content, prose, and organization are excellent. It tells stories of some 4 dozen or so influential men (and a few women) of mathematics.. It is both an inspiration and a reference of interesting problems (many old ones and some current). Highly recommended for the mathematically inclined. This book can be read as biographies (ignoring many mathematical details) or with more interest the math itself.

the best single volume history of mathematics?
This is the book that turned John Forbes Nash (A BEAUTIFUL MIND) on to mathematics. I'm not enough of a scholar to know if it's the best single volume history of mathematics, but I can't imagine many better.This is a sturdy modern edition -- handsomely, although not, perhaps, beautifully, printed. ... Read more

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How easy to get lost in the stream of time...Or is it?
Here's a fascinating tale by John Taine, who is actually mathematicianEric Temple Bell.As I read this, back in the Sixties, the book containedtwo other stories: The Purple Sapphire, and The White Lilly.All thesestories are somewhat dated, but quite original pieces, that stand bythemselves.The Time Stream follows several travelers, who make use ofsome rather interesting properties of time - apparently it behaves likewater flowing, and thus has eddy currents that can be used to move bothforward and back if you know how.The Purple Sapphire is an adventure taleset in the wilderness of Tibet, and assumes there are places on this earththat are remote and mysterious.It's a good yarn, and well spun, if youcan set yourself back to those times.The White Lilly is a fairly dated"jekyll-hyde" piece about the good and not-so-good aspects ofexperimentation with radiation, (something that has been done todeath).

Still if you can find them, you'll find them well-written andfun.Well worth trying to find. ... Read more