Fictitious Problems in Mathematics
Abstract
YOUR reviewer gives a new definition of ``a perfectly rough body'' (NATURE, June 1), which he says is that of the mathematician. The definition appears to me to contradict what he has elsewhere said. But I need not enlarge on this point, for his criticism of a problem should be tried, not by his definition, but by that given in the book in which the problem occurs.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- June 1905
- DOI:
- 10.1038/072127b0
- Bibcode:
- 1905Natur..72..127R