Word: calculus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Mathematics III. Differential and Integral Calculus April to June...
...editorial is only the first of a series waging a campaign for the new education in schools and colleges. We eagerly look forward for instance to a damnation of higher mathematics. It is such a useless study. What chance will a Wall Street clerk ever have of applying his calculus to his life-work? And then, too, you know it is so dreadfully difficult. Men sometimes spend thirty consecutive minutes pondering over a lot of mysterious signs and symbols--really, it is pitiful...
...Mathematics, including one or two questions in algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, analytic and differential calculus...
Physics, embracing a general college course; mathematics, including one or two questions in algebra, plane and solid geometry, trigonometry, analytic and differential calculus; technics, covering the general field of mechanics, industrial arts and processes, and applied chemistry; inorganic chemistry, qualitative analysis and elementary organic; French or German; mechanical drawing...
Professor W. E. Byerly's "Calculus of Variations" is the first of a proposed series of small volumes dealing with mathematical subjects of special interest to physicists. "Genetics and Eugenics," by Professor W. E. Castle '93, is a textbook for students of biology and a work of reference for animal and plant breeders. "The Order of Nature" is a thesis by L. J. Henderson '98, assistant professor of Biological Chemistry in the University, which seeks to reconcile scientific conclusion with the results of philosophic thought. A. B. Lamb, Ph.D. '03, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Director of the University Chemical...