Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 of 3: Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and UtilityRomanes, George John
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Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 of 3: Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility
Romanes, George John
Evolution (Biology); Heredity
Philosophical Portrait Series.
No. 100. 43 portraits on plate paper, $6.25 per set net.
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Psychological Portrait Series.
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Framing Portrait of Hugo de Vries.
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Framing Portrait of William James.
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Portraits of Eminent Mathematicians
Three portfolios edited by David Eugene Smith, Professor of Mathematics
in Teachers' College, Columbia University, New York.
In response to a widespread demand from those interested in mathematics
and the history of education, Professor Smith has edited three
portfolios of the portraits of some of the most eminent of the world's
contributors to the mathematical sciences. Accompanying each portrait is
a brief biographical sketch, with occasional notes of interest
concerning the artist represented. The pictures are of a size that
allows for framing (11" × 14"), it being the hope that a new interest in
mathematics may be aroused through the decoration of classrooms by the
portraits of those who helped to create the science.
Portfolio No. 1.--Twelve great mathematicians down to 1700 A.D.: Thales,
Pythagorus, Euclid, Archimedes, Leonardo of Pisa, Cardan, Vieta, Napier,
Descartes, Fermat, Newton, Leibniz.
Portfolio No. 2.--The most eminent founders and promotors of the
infinitesimal calculus: Cavallieri, Johann and Jakob Bernoulli, Pascal,
L'Hopital, Barrow, Laplace, Lagrange, Euler, Gauss, Monge, and Niccolo
Tartaglia.
Portfolio No. 3--Eight portraits selected from the two former
portfolios, especially adapted for high schools and academies,
comprising portraits of
Thales--with whom began the study of scientific geometry;
Pythagoras--who proved the proposition of the square on the
hypotenuse;
Euclid--whose Elements of Geometry form the basis of all modern
text-books;
Archimedes--whose treatment of the circle, cone, cylinder and sphere
influences our work today;
Descartes--to whom we are indebted for the graphic algebra in our
high schools;
Newton--who generalized the binomial theorem and invented the
calculus;
Napier--who invented logarithms and contributed to trigonometry;
Pascal--who discovered the "Mystic Hexagram" at the age of sixteen.
Portraits of Mathematicians, Part I.
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Portraits of Mathematicians, Part II.
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