Re: Science without Greek?

Frederick Williams <frederick.williams2@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

There is a rather odd book on elliptic functions by Albert Eagle in
which he introduces tau to mean pi/2 which I think is rather
amusing.


Ah, Eagle! I've never read his work, but somehow I picked up this
quote:

"Such behaviour is exclusively confined to functions invented by
mathematicians for the sake of causing trouble."
-Albert Eagle's _A Practical Treatise on Fourier's Theorem_

--
"How can people [philosophers] talk like that? Acting as if they're
/glad/ they don't know things! Finding out more and more things they
don't know! It's like children proudly coming to show you a full
potty!" -- Terry Pratchett, /Small Gods/
.

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