"Professor Sylvester's first high class at the new university Johns Hopkins consisted of only one student, G. B. Halst…"

"The opinion is widely prevalent that even if the subjects are totally forgotten, a valuable mental discipline is acqu…"

"The grandest achievement of the Hindus and the one which, of all mathematical inventions, has contributed most to the…"

"Our so-called "Arabic" notation owes its excellence to the application of the principle of local value and the use of…"

"My quotations from Newton suggest the motive which induced him to take a stand against the use of hypotheses, namely,…"

"The history of mathematics may be instructive as well as agreeable ; it may not only remind us of what we have, but m…"

"The history of mathematics is important also as a valuable contribution to the history of civilization. Human progres…"

"It is a remarkable fact in the history of geometry, that the Elements of Euclid, written two thousand years ago, are …"

"Comparatively few of the propositions and proofs in the Elements are his [Euclid's] own discoveries. In fact, the pro…"

"The Elements has been considered as offering models of scrupulously rigorous demonstrations. It is certainly true tha…"