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Herbert Spencer and Mathematics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2009

John Sturgeon Mackay
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About forty years ago, when Spencer was rising into philosophic fame, it used often to be said by his admirers that he was an accomplished mathematician. This statement was accepted without demur, though it was known that he had not measured himself against rivals of his own age, or, what is more important, had not produced anything new in this old science.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society , Volume 25 , February 1906 , pp. 95 - 106
Copyright
Copyright © Edinburgh Mathematical Society 1906

References

* This consists of two huge volumes, the first containing 556, and the second 542 pages. The preface by himself is dated 27th April 1894, when he was 74 years of age; he was born on 27th April 1820. The publication of the Autobiography by his trustees took place in 1904.

To save repetition of Autobiography when the book is referred to, the volume and the page have alone been noted.

* Miscellanea Curiosa Mathematica, p. 117–124.

† The title-page is not dated, but the preface to the first part ends with Trinity College [Dublin] Sept. 7, 1833.