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Inaugural Lecture On Mathematics and Mathematical Research

1913

And your presence to- day among us, your Excellency, is at once one more token of the kindly interest you are known to take in all that concerns the welfare of the people of Bengal, and an official recognition of the importance the local government attaches to the progressive development of this University. [...] In recent years, moreover, more especially since the creation of the new department over which Sir Harcourt Butler presides, the Govern- ment of India has been at pains to show the interest it takes in the higher forms of intellec- tual activity by coming to the financial assistance( 2 ) of the Indian Universities in the matter of research. [...] The use of the -exceptional is one of the leading ideas in the work:of Weiorstrass and his pupil AT ittag-Leftler ; but only in the Theory of Functions of a Real Variable and its applications has its full importance begun to be realised. [...] are to the mental world what the ma. sterpiece. i,: of 'Music and of Art are to the motepahonc: . They represent the extreme degree of peiltyction of `accuratethought of which the human mind . elias as yet shown itself capable. [...] As we listen to these pure harmonies and contemplate these ever changing and beauteous visions we shall be abandoning ourselves to no merely sensuous pleasures. ( 19 ) We shall be taking to our elves impressions of conceptions which, eV011 ill their rudimentary Onus, have, at the turning points of the history of the human mind been the source of the inspi- ration of the greatest physicists, the bro
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Pages
21
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100014
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii W.H. Young view
Your Excellency Mr. Vice-Chancellor Members of the Syndicate Members of the Senate Colleagues Students
1-19 unknown view

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