单词 | higher algebra |
释义 | > as lemmashigher algebra 4. With nouns denoting a subject of study, indicating a more advanced level or approach, as higher algebra, higher geometry, higher mathematics, etc.Use with the definite article (as the higher mathematics) was formerly more usual than it is now. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > quality of being better or superior > [adjective] > surpassing the ordinary surpassingc1580 supraordinarya1623 superordinary1630 extraordinary1649 higher1718 above par1776 extra1850 premium1856 plus1921 double dip1963 1718 I. Newton Let. in Corr. (1977) VII. 18 He..kept a correspondence with Mr Oldenburg about Arithmetical questions..& hither he knew nothing of the higher Geometry. 1767 Crit. Rev. Nov. 374 By the application of algebra and the higher calculus, the principal properties of spherical triangles are investigated in a very curious and concise manner. 1778 E. Apthorp Lett. Prevalence Christianity 29 A clearer and a shorter course of mathematics and the higher physics. 1807 T. Young Course Lect. Nat. Philos. II. 557/2 It is absolutely necessary for the purposes of the higher geometry to extend..the foundations which the ancients laid in their postulates. 1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 68 The approximative methods of the higher mathematics. 1894 Pop. Sci. Monthly Nov. 56 The present sequence begins with algebra and runs through geometry, plane trigonometry, and higher algebra to analytics. 1904 G. Burgess & W. Irwin Picaroons vi. 135 You can mark a ‘high-low’ system that is pretty sure to win, but it's too difficult for me—I was never much of a Dazmaraz at the higher mathematics. 1944 Life 27 Mar. 105/2 A lightning calculator that does problems in the higher calculus faster than twenty mathematicians. 1959 Canad. Math. Bull. 2 137 Few of the texts on higher algebra will confront the reader with numerical details, computing schemes, and example work. 2002 Isis 93 457/1 The importance of a lesser-known branch of higher mathematics for Einstein's unified approach to gravitation and inertia. 2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 19 Aug. 53/4 When a vice-president visits the CIA eight times to express his views..he's not struggling with the higher geometry of intelligence analysis but turning up the heat in the kitchen. < as lemmas |
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