Sentence examples for beginning of number from inspiring English sources

From there, Euclid proved a sequence of theorems that marks the beginning of number theory as a mathematical (as opposed to a numerological) enterprise.

Aristotle in his Metaphysics wrote, "... a measure is not the things measured, but the measure or the One is the beginning of number".

In the latter (commentary to Laozi 39), Wang defines "one" as "the beginning of numbers and the ultimate of things".

Commenting on chapter 42 of the Laozi, Wang Bi writes, "One can be said to be wu"; "One is the beginning of numbers and the ultimate of things" (commentary on ch. 39; see also Wang's commentary on the Yijing, trans. in Lynn 1994, 60).

As a marker for proliferation, a growth index per day (GID) was calculated through the formula: GID = (number of cells at beginning of passage/number of cells at end of passage)/days in passage.

Enter the beginning number of your series in your current cell.

As the year 2016 was beginning, a number of promising initiatives emerged that could change the face of cities.

It was the beginning of a number of odd things.

In the meantime, it suggested merely adding a plus sign to the beginning of the number.

"There's a lot of work still to do," Sir Jeremy said, "and this is only the beginning of a number of steps we need to take on Sierra Leone.

The Great Famine of 1315 began a number of acute crises in the English agrarian economy.