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Mathematics and the Engineering Student Some General Considerations*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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My remarks this morning will be devoted mainly to general considerations and to principles. Dr. Topping and Mr. Verity are to deal with the courses in detail, but behind all that they say there must be a background of principle, and I hope that a statement of my creed will not find them active dissenters.
I take as my text a quotation from Ruskin which I placed on the flyleaf of a little book I wrote in 1925, and of the truth of which I am as convinced as ever—“Know what you have to do, and do it, for I believe that failure is less frequently attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labour, than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.”
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An address delivered to the Mathematical Section of the Board of Education Engineering Summer School at Oxford; the Board is, however, neither responsible for, nor necessarily in agreement with, the views expressed.
It may also be regarded as the presentation of a point of view diametrically opposed to that of Mr. Dockeray in his article in the Gazette for October, 1938.
References
page no 434 note * Engineering Applications of Mathematics (Pitmans).
page no 436 note * Math. Gazette, XXII, 105 (May, 1938).
page no 439 note * This example and some of the others were actually given in greater detail.
page no 440 note * Math. Gazette, XIII, 10.
page no 441 note * [This article was published in Math. Gazette, XXIII, pp. 338-9.]