Quote#Politics & Power
Symbolical algebra is … the science which treats of the combination…
Quote byDuncan Farquharson Gregory · 1813–1844
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Gregory (1865) The Mathematical Writings of Duncan Farquharson Gregory, M.A., Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, ed. p. 2, as cited in: Patricia R. Allaire and Robert E. Bradley. "Symbolical algebra as a foundation for calculus: DF Gregory's contribution." Historia Mathematica 29.4 (2002): p.
English (original)
Symbolical algebra is … the science which treats of the combination of operations defined not by their nature, … but by the laws of combination to which they are subject....[W]e suppose the existence of classes of unknown operations subject to the same laws.
— Duncan Farquharson Gregory
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