I. A memoir on the theory of mathematical form

Abstract

1. My object in this memoir is to separate the necessary matter of exact or mathematical thought from the accidental clothing—geometrical, algebraical, logical, &c.—in which it is usually presented for consideration; and to indicate wherein consists the infinite variety which that necessary m atter exhibits. 2. The memoir is confined to the exposition of fundamental principles, to their elementary developments, to their application to such a variety of cases as will vindicate their value, and to a description of some simple and uniform modes of putting the necessary matter in evidence. I have been unable to ascertain that the principles here set forth have been previously formulated.