the new method of evaluation
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not: for this purpose it should reach, to use the expressive language of Euclid, "ever so far."
This last process, of "continually producing the Lines," may require centuries or more: but such a period, though long in the life of an individual, is as nothing in the life of the University.
As Photography is now very much employed in recording human expressions, and might possibly be adapted to Algebraical Expressions, a small photographic room would be desirable, both for general use and for representing the various phenomena of Gravity, Disturbance of Equilibrium, Resolution, etc., which affect the features during severe mathematical operations.
May I trust that you will give your immediate attention to this most important subject?
Believe me,
Sincerely yours,
MATHEMATICUS
February 6, 1868.
THE NEW METHOD OF
EVALUATION
AS APPLIED TO Π
"little jack horner
sat in the corner
eating his christmas pie."
The problem of evaluating π which has engaged the attention of mathematicians from the earliest ages, had,