Introduction to Mathematics

An Introduction to Mathematics
By A. N. WHITEHEAD, Sc.D., F.R.S.

Quotes:
"The important applications of the science, the theoretical interest of its ideas, and the logical rigour of its methods, all generate the expectation of a speedy introduc­tion to processes of interest. We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of Hamlet’s father, this great science eludes the efforts of our mental weapons to grasp it—" ’Tis here, ’tis there, ’tis gone"—and what we do see does not suggest the same excuse for elusiveness as sufficed for the ghost, that it is too noble for our gross methods."

The object of this book
"is not to teach mathematics, but to enable students from the very beginning of their course to know what the science is about, and why it is necessarily the foundation of exact thought as applied to natural phenomena. All allusion in what follows to detailed deductions in any part of the science will be inserted merely for the purpose of example, and care will be taken to make the general argument comprehensible, even if here and there some technical process or symbol which the reader does not understand is cited for the purpose of illustration."
[A. N. WHITEHEAD]

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