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University of Calcutta. Report on the Study of Mathematics on the Continent of Europe

1918

But it is true not only in England but also elsewhere that the subject of a set of lectures and even the enumeration of the topics treated of gives very insufficient information as to the actual tenour of the treatment and the enormous differences such as those which exist between the treatment of the Calculus by Picard Goursat or de la Valls5b Poussin Lebesgue and that of an ordinary teac [...] That moreover the Doctor Dissertations of the students are almost always the outcome of work undertaken immdiately under the eye of the professor to whom the student allbad during the period of prparation; an am pint of access limited c011ig. [...] Even in England the pay of a professor is at times less than one third that of the Vice-Chancellor at faitse provinoial mtvirsititibwhere the latter iskit-paid In Germany on the othertand a p from one day to the next illay be10 to Berlin and invited to the presence of the Emperor. [...] The standard for the Doctor's degree might with advantage be that_ 3vhich_ obWirigi gilt° uytatherthan the higher one of the ?ranch The alternative plan of securing for the Doctorate a higher standard equal to that of France could only be secured by increasing the difficulty of taking the degree of Master of Arts; giving it in fact for much the same kind of work as gains the Doctor's degree i [...] Nelrulae Milky.way.38 Thus by the study of Cosmography the spatial conceptions of the pupil are exercised in the course of it and he learns to make use of the technical information he has obtained in the study of Geometry and Trigonometry.
education
Pages
225
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142027
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i W.H. Young view
Report on the Study of Mathematics on the Continent of Europe
1-11 unknown view
Rough Draft of Proposals with regard to the Examinations
12-21 unknown view
Additional Considerations
22-72 unknown view
The Study of Mathematics at English Universities
73-100 unknown view
Germany and Austria
101-120 unknown view
Appendix
121-224 unknown view

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