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The Romance of Mathematics: Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion. — John Shaqi

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The Romance of Mathematics: Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.

Name: The Romance of Mathematics: Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.
Author: Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)

Satire, English; Women -- Education -- Great Britain

The Editor has been able to gather from the varied contents of the desk
some details of the Author's life, which increase the interest which her
words excite; and he ventures to hope that the public will appreciate
the wisdom which created such a profound impression upon those whose
high privilege it was to hear the lectures for the first time in the
Hall of Girtham College.




CONTENTS.


  PAPER                                                             PAGE
    I. Some Remarks on Female Education:

         Cambridge Man's Powers of Application.--Torturing Ingenuity
         of Examiners.--Slaying an Enemy.--'Concentration.'--
         'Tangential Action.'--'Gravity'                               1

   II. Lecture on the Theory of Brain Waves and the Transmigration
       and Potentiality of Mental Forces                              15

  III. The Social Properties of a Conic Section, and the Theory of
       Polemical Mathematics:

        'Circle.'--'Parabola.'--'Ellipse.' 'Eccentricity of Curves'   25

   IV. The Social Properties of a Conic Section (_continued_):

        'Ellipse.'--Most favoured State.--Alarming Result of
         Suppression of House of Lords.--Analogies of Nature.--
         Directrix.--Contact of Curves and States.--'Hyperbola.'--
         Problems.--Radical Axis and Patriotism.--Extension of
         Franchise to Women.--Correspondence                          39

    V. Social Forces, with some Account of Polemical Kinematics:

         The Use of Imagination in Scientific Discovery.--Kinetic and
         Potential Energy.--Social Statics and Dynamics.--Attractive
         Forces.--Cohesion.--Formation of States.--Inertia.--Dr.
         Tyndall on Social Forces                                     71

   VI. Social Forces (_continued_): Polemical Statics and Dynamics:

        'Personal Equation.'--Public Opinion, how calculated.--
         Impulsive Forces.--Friction.--Progress                       89

  VII. Laws of Political Motion:

         M. Auguste Comte on Political Science.--First Law of
         Motion.--The Biology of Politics.--Stages of Growth and
         Decay of States.--Doctrine of Nationality.--Doctrine of
         Independence.--Law of Morality.--Ignorance of Electors and
         Selfishness of Statesmen opposed to Action of Law.--Final
         'Reign of Law'                                              101

 VIII. The Principle of Polemical Cohesion:

         Centralization.--Co-operation of States.--Marriage.--Trade
         Unions.--International Law                                  115

       Extracts from the Diary of the Lady Professor                 125

       Conclusion                                                    129




PAPER I.

SOME REMARKS OF A GIRTHAM GIRL ON FEMALE EDUCATION.

The Romance of Mathematics: Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws of Political Motion.

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