  | i.e., in terms of the absolutely clear and indefinable. | | Used here in the sense of astrologer, or soothsayer. | | This is the estimate furnished me by two mathematical masters in one of our great public schools of the proportion of boys who have any special taste or capacity for mathematical studies. Many more, of course, can be drilled into a fair knowledge of elementary mathematics, but only this small proportion possess the natural faculty which renders it possible for them ever to rank high as mathematicians, to take any pleasure in it, or to do any original mathematical work. | | The mathematical tendencies of Cambridge are due to the fact that Cambridge drains the ability of nearly the whole Anglo-Danish district. | | Riccardi’s Bibliografia Euclidea (Bologna, 1887), lists nearly two thousand editions. | | The line referred to is:
“The anchor drops, the rushing keel is staid.” | | Johannes Flamsteedius. | | This sentence has been reworded for the purpose of this quotation. | | Author’s note. My colleague, Dr. E. T. Bell, informs me that this same anecdote is associated with the name of J. S. Blackie, Professor of Greek at Aberdeen and Edinburgh. | | In the German vernacular a dunce or blockhead is called an ox. | | Schopenhauer’s table contains a third column headed “of matter” which has here been omitted. | | For another rendition of these same lines see 1858. | | The beginning of a poem which Johannes a Lasco wrote on the count Karl von SÜdermanland. |
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