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Quotes from The Mathematical Theory of the Top — Carl Barus

1856–1935 United States

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Memory peters out like the infinite series of a ζ-function.

The Mathematical Theory of the Top (1898)

The boon of an appropriate lemma is ideal generosity, and not even a mathematician can scorn its almost mathematical elegance.

The Mathematical Theory of the Top (1898)

Among recent contributions we may refer in particular to Professor A. G. Greenhill's noteworthy papers... when one remembers that these complex curves reach only especially simple cases of gyroscope motion, one may get some notion of the difficulty of the problem involved.

The Mathematical Theory of the Top (1898)

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