"Quadratic" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... square-yards and fractions of a square-yard, contained in that piece of walk: and the distance, traversed in passing through a square-yard at a corner, is evidently a yard. Hence the area of the garden is 3,630 square-yards: i.e., if x be the width, x (x 1/2) 3,630. Solving this Quadratic, we find x 60. Hence the ...
— A Tangled Tale • Lewis Carroll
... arithmetical machine with continuous motion. His mathematical writings, which account for some forty entries in the Royal Society's catalogue of scientific papers, cover a wide range of subjects, such as the theory of probabilities, quadratic forms, theory of integrals, gearings, the construction of geographical maps, &c. He also published a Traite de la theorie des nombres. He died at St Petersburg on ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 - "Chtelet" to "Chicago" • Various
... algebra through quadratic equations, plane geometry, descriptive geography, physical geography, United States history and ...
— Go Ahead Boys and the Racing Motorboat • Ross Kay
... orthodox political economy prescribed by examiners for the University of London. It is something to see a world where ceaseless toil is not the necessary and inevitable lot of all who don't pay income tax on a thousand a year, even if Board schools are unknown and quadratic equations a vanishing quantity. It is something to see a stick of sugar-cane protruding from the mouth of every child, and oranges retailed at twelve for a ha'penny. It is something to know how the vast majority of the human race still live and move and ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen
... Isms, and Ologies, Science, and Cram, Quadratic Equations, and Butter, The Pons asinorum, and Strawberry Jam, And the Cane, ...
— Dick, Marjorie and Fidge - A Search for the Wonderful Dodo • G. E. Farrow
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