http://mathforum.org/kb List of forum topics en http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=5498178&tstart=0#5498178 Dear Julio and All,

I have been studying Al-Khayyam's "Commentary on Euclid's Elements"
using the English translation (from Arabic)]]> Jan 1, 2007 11:55:42 AM Jan 1, 2007 11:55:42 AM philologos@mindspring.com 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=5498173&tstart=0#5498173 Mysticism and Logic. In the essay "The Study of Mathematics"

Steve Butcher
Department of Mathematics
University of Central]]> Dec 16, 2006 11:54:56 AM Dec 16, 2006 11:54:56 AM SteveB@uca.edu 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=5498172&tstart=0#5498172 On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Reuben Hersh <rhersh@gmail.com>
asked for the source of a passage beginning

>]]> Dec 16, 2006 11:48:22 AM Dec 16, 2006 11:48:22 AM wcw@math.psu.edu 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=5498175&tstart=0#5498175 At 16:52 14/11/2006, Gunnar Berg wrote:

>Dear all.
>In perusing Cauchys "Cours d'analyse" (1821) I have]]> Dec 7, 2006 4:19:09 PM Dec 7, 2006 4:19:09 PM ajuhel@nordnet.fr 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=5498170&tstart=0#5498170 L'expression française "solution de continuité" est un faux ami et n'a pas
le sens auquel on pourrait s'attendre. Elle provient de la]]> Dec 7, 2006 3:17:10 PM Dec 7, 2006 3:17:10 PM francois.bruand@freesurf.ch 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=5438007&tstart=0#5438007 I am working on a paper on the history of linear indeterminate
equations. My understanding is that their history begins]]> Dec 1, 2006 5:15:30 AM Dec 1, 2006 5:15:30 AM jfk49@att.net 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=5438018&tstart=0#5438018 ]]> Dec 1, 2006 5:15:29 AM Dec 1, 2006 5:15:29 AM 1 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=5438012&tstart=0#5438012 The following quote is attributed to Bertrand Russell in Steve Krantz's
"Mathematical Apocrypha Redux," MAA 2006, p. 100


"The true]]> Nov 28, 2006 9:59:13 AM Nov 28, 2006 9:59:13 AM rhersh@gmail.com 2 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=5438010&tstart=0#5438010 On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Gunnar Berg <gunnar@math.uu.se>

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> Dear all.
> In perusing Cauchys]]> Nov 22, 2006 4:06:05 PM Nov 22, 2006 4:06:05 PM wcw@math.psu.edu 0 http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=5438009&tstart=0#5438009 Dear Gunnar Berg,

> What puzzles me is the last phrase - "solution de continuite" -
> I simply cannot make]]> Nov 22, 2006 1:48:49 PM Nov 22, 2006 1:48:49 PM jgautero@unice.fr 0