1. Citações
  2. Autores
  3. Henry Burchard Fine

Frases de Henry Burchard Fine

Henry Burchard Fine foi um matemático estadunidense.

Fine estudou na Universidade de Princeton e na Universidade de Leipzig . Foi professor assistente em Princeton, de 1885 a 1890, e tornou-se professor em 1890, foi depois decano da faculdade, de 1903 a 1912, e depois decano do departamento de ciências após 1909.

Foi presidente da American Mathematical Society, de 1911 a 1912.

Fine Hall, o edifício do Departamento de Matemática de Princeton, recebe seu nome em reconhecimento a sua atuação no desenvolvimento do departamento. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. Setembro 1858 – 22. Dezembro 1928
Henry Burchard Fine photo
Henry Burchard Fine: 3 citações0 Curtidas

Henry Burchard Fine: Frases em inglês

“Judged by the only standards which are admissible in a pure doctrine of numbers i is imaginary in the same sense as the negative, the fraction, and the irrational, but in no other sense; all are alike mere symbols devised for the sake of representing the results of operations even when these results are not numbers (positive integers).”

Help us translate this quote

Henry Burchard Fine

Fonte: The Number-System of Algebra, (1890), p. 86; Reported in Moritz (1914, 282)

“Number is that property of a group of distinct things which remains unchanged during any change to which the 263 group may be subjected which does not destroy the distinctness of the individual things.”

Help us translate this quote

Henry Burchard Fine

Fonte: The Number-System of Algebra, (1890), p. 3; Reported in Robert Edouard Moritz. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book https://archive.org/stream/memorabiliamathe00moriiala#page/81/mode/2up, (1914), p. 263

“The opinion is widely prevalent that even if the subjects are totally forgotten, a valuable mental discipline is acquired by the efforts made to master them. While the Conference admits that, considered in itself this discipline has a certain value, it feels that such a discipline is greatly inferior to that which may be gained by a different class of exercises, and bears the same relation to a really improving discipline that lifting exercises in an ill-ventilated room bear to games in the open air. The movements of a race horse afford a better model of improving exercise than those of the ox in a tread-mill.”

Help us translate this quote

Henry Burchard Fine

Simon Newcomb, Henry Burchard Fine, Florian Cajori et al. Report of the Committee [of Ten http://books.google.com/books?id=58agAAAAMAAJ on Secondary School Studies Appointed at the Meeting of the National Educational Association July 9, 1892: With the Reports of the Conferences Arranged by this Committee and Held December 28-30, 1892]. p. 108: On math education