Half the students studying at Yale in 1830 were summarily expelled for one grievous, not-to-be-tolerated offense: They refused to accept or use the blackboard — the new technology that was being ...

Vol. 44, No. 5/6, SPECIAL ISSUE: Mathematics in Kant's Critical Philosophy (December 2014), pp. 719-758 (40 pages) This paper tries to make sense of Kant's scattered remarks about conic sections to ...

THE portions of the title-pages we have above given sufficiently indicate the scope of the two works under review and the measure of acceptance they have met with. As we have already given an account ...

MR. TAYLOR's present work is by no means a second edition of his “Geometrical Conies”(1863). His object in this volume is a highly laudable one; from more than one quarter has recently come the ...

From Figure a. it is apparent that the distance from one focus, to a point in the orbit, to the other focus is a constant. From Figure b. it appears that areas encompassed between two points in an ...

There are about a dozen published variations of equidistant conic map projections. They are identical when using the same actual standard parallels, but the parallels are chosen differently. Greater ...

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