James Joseph Sylvester Quote

Number, place, and combination... the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.


James Joseph Sylvester, Collected Mathematical Papers, Vol. 1 (1904), p. 91.


Number, place, and combination... the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

Number, place, and combination... the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

Number, place, and combination... the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

Number, place, and combination... the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.