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Title: The Romance of Mathematics
Being the Original Researches of a Lady Professor of Girtham
College in Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social
Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain Waves; Social Forces;
and the Laws of Political Motion.

Author: P. Hampson

Release Date: August 29, 2008 [EBook #26481]

Language: English

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THE
ROMANCE OF MATHEMATICS.

The
Romance of Mathematics:

BEING
THE ORIGINAL RESEARCHES
OF
A LADY PROFESSOR OF GIRTHAM COLLEGE
IN
_Polemical Science, with some Account of the Social
Properties of a Conic; Equations to Brain
Waves; Social Forces; and the Laws
of Political Motion._

BY
P. HAMPSON, M.A.,
ORIEL COLLEGE, OXFORD.

LONDON:
ELLIOT STOCK, 62, PATERNOSTER ROW.
1886.

INTRODUCTION.

The lectures, essays, and other matter contained in these pages have
been discovered recently in a well-worn desk which was formerly the
property of a Lady Professor of Girtham College; and as they contain
some original thoughts and investigations, they have been considered
worthy of publication.

How they came into the possession of the present writer it is not his
intention to disclose; but inasmuch as they seemed to his unscientific
mind to contain some important discoveries which might be useful to the
world, he determined to investigate thoroughly the contents of the