This modern branch of mathematics, unknown to the ancients, when dealing with
problems of motion admits the conception of the infinitely small, and so conforms to the chief condition of motion
War and Peace
The East End of London, I read, or some one says; and first of all, under my eyelids, leap the visions of the shining pubs, and in my ears echo the calls for "two of bitter" and "three of Scotch." The Latin Quarter--at once I am in the student cabarets, bright faces and keen spirits around me, sipping cool, well- dripped absinthe while our voices mount and soar in Latin fashion as we settle God and art and democracy and the rest of the simple
problems of existence.
John Barleycorn
"Because it will be trying to solve the problem called `the problem of the three bodies,' for which the integral calculus is not yet far enough advanced."
"No, Michel; the difficult part is what Barbicane has done; that is, to get an equation which shall satisfy all the conditions of the problem. The remainder is only a question of arithmetic, requiring merely the knowledge of the four rules."
Round The Moon
Here she faced the financial and economic
problem of keeping house in a society where the cost of living rose faster than the wages of industry.
The Valley of the Moon
Consider the change that has come in twenty years in the discussion of the Negro
problem. Two or three decades ago social philosophers and statisticians and well-meaning philanthropists were still talking and writing about the deportation of the Negroes, or about their settlement within some restricted area, or about their settling in all parts of the Union, or about their decline through their neglect of their children, or about their rapid multiplication till they should expel the whites from the South--of every sort of nonsense under heaven.
Up From Slavery
"You are right, my dear doctor; but this
problem is not yet solved; this means has not yet been discovered."
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Some future Carty may solve the abandoned
problem of the single wire, and cut the copper bill in two by restoring the grounded circuit.
History of the Telephone
There are various
problems as to how we can be conscious now of what no longer exists.
The Analysis of Mind
You are going to know all; and, without further preamble, I am going to place before your eyes the
problem of The Yellow Room as it was placed before the eyes of the entire world on the day following the enactment of the drama at the Chateau du Glandier.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
If it had not been for the
problem of keeping dependable hired hands and the sight of the mine-tipple, which, towering on the adjoining farm, reminded her more and more constantly of Bill, she would not even have considered the offer of Gordon Hamilton, one of Fallon's leading business men, to buy her whole section.
Dust
As she sought her own rooms in Diana's Grove, she went over the whole subject again and again, always finding in the face of Lilla Watford a key to a
problem which puzzled her--the
problem of a way to turn Caswall's powers--his very existence--to aid her purpose.
Lair of the White Worm
"The
problem before us," continued the president, "is how to communicate to a projectile a velocity of 12,000 yards per second.
From The Earth To The Moon
I do not, of course, mean that there are not battles, conspiracies, tumults, factions, and all those other phenomena which are supposed to make History interesting; nor would I deny that the strange mixture of the
problems of life and the
problems of Mathematics, continually inducing conjecture and giving the opportunity of immediate verification, imparts to our existence a zest which you in Spaceland can hardly comprehend.
Flatland
Or did he go forward, into one of the nearer ages, in which men are still men, but with the riddles of our own time answered and its wearisome
problems solved?
Time Machine