The human worth of rigorous thinking
Subtitle: essays and addresses
By: by Cassius J. Keyser ...
Publisher: Columbia university press
Published: 1916
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
Subjects: Mathematics
Notes: Reprinted from "various scientific, literary, and philosophical journals."--cf. Pref.
Table of contents: title: The human worth of rigorous thinking.; title: The human significance of mathematics.; title: The humanization of the teaching of mathematics.; title: The walls of the world; or, Concerning the figure and the dimensions of the universe of space.; title: Mathematical emancipations: dimensionality and hyperspace.; title: The universe and beyond: the existence of the hypercosmic.; title: The axiom of infinity: a new presupposition of thought.; title: The permanent basis of a liberal education.; title: Graduate mathematical instruction for graduate students not intending to become mathematicians.; title: The source and functions of a university.; title: Research in American universities.; title: Principia mathematica.; title: Concerning multiple interpretations of postulate systems and the "existence" of hyperspace.; title: Mathematical productivity in the United States.; title: Mathematics.