"This book, a result of nineteen years' lectures on the calculus of finite differences, probability, and mathematical statistics in the Budapest University of ...

December 29, 1731. Brook Taylor died.—Educated at Cambridge and a man of means, Taylor was devoted to the arts and sciences, served as secretary to the Royal Society, and in 1715 published his ...

IN a paper which I read to the Physical Society last January (see NATURE, February 11, p. 662) I suggested that the best way of analysing a wave, the graph of which was given, was to apply the rules ...