Lexicographical Neighbors of Porisms
Literary usage of Porisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"it Relation of the 'porisms' to the Arithmetica. ... Hence I agree with the view
of Hultsch that the porisms were not included in the Arithmetica at all, ..."
2. The Mathematician by Thomas Stephens Davies, Stephen Fenwick, William Rutherford (1856)
"The only attempt, however, which approximated to success was that of Fermat: and,
even though he certainly did discover a few actual porisms of one ..."
3. The Works of John Playfair ...: With a Memoir of the Author by John Playfair (1822)
"... ow THE ORIGIN AND INVESTIGATION OF porisms. * 1. THE restoration of the ancient
books of geometry would have been impossible, without the coincidence of ..."
4. Tracts, Mathematical and Physical by Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1860)
"Almost the whole are of that kind called porisms, whose nature and origin is now
well known; and, if that mathematician to whom we owe the first distinct ..."
5. A Short Account of the History of Mathematics by Walter William Rouse Ball (1908)
"I mentioned that Diophantus wrote a third work entitled porisms. The book is
lost, but we have the enunciations of some of the propositions, and though we ..."
6. Euclid's Elements of Geometry: Chiefly from the Text of Dr. Simson, with by Robert Potts (1847)
"SIMSON'S RESTORATION OF THE porisms. IT is proposed to publish, by subscription,
a translation of Dr Simson's Restoration of the ..."
7. New Series of The Mathematical Repository by Thomas Leybourn (1830)
"In the First Volume of the Repository, Mr. Ivory has given an elegant Geometrical
Analysis of one of those curious porisms which were published without ..."
8. Tracts, Mathematical and Physical by Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1860)
"porisms. THE wonderful progress that has been made in the pure mathematics since
the application of algebra to geometry, begun by Vieta in the sixteenth, ..."
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