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The Mathematics of Thread and Cloth: An Historical Survey

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

A. F. Barker*
Affiliation:
University of Leeds

Extract

As a student in the Department of Textile Industries of the University of Leeds—then the Yorkshire College—I was taught to emulate the successes of my forefathers in the spinning of yarns and in the weaving of fabrics,—and also to perpetuate some of their errors. Empirical work, without any discrimination or “imaginative insight,” was the fundamental basis of practically all instruction.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1920

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