The Common Sense of the Exact Sciences by William Kingdon Cli... - 9781108077125

The Common Sense of the Exact SciencesAuthor(s): William Kingdon Clifford, Karl Pearson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108077125, 978-1108077125\nSynopsis\nA student of Trinity College and a member of the Cambridge Apostles, William Kingdon Clifford [tel] graduated as second wrangler in the mathematical tripos, became a professor of applied mathematics at University College London in 1871, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1874. The present work was begun by Clifford during a remarkably productive period of ill health, yet it remained unfinished at his death. The statistician and philosopher of science Karl Pearson [tel] was invited to edit and complete the work, finally publishing it in 1885. It tackles five of the most fundamental areas of mathematics - number, space, quantity, position and motion - explaining each one in the most basic terms, as well as deriving several ori.