Among the earliest books devoted exclusively to combinatorics are the German mathematician Eugen Netto's Lehrbuch der Combinatorik (1901; "Textbook of Combinatorics") and the British mathematician Percy Alexander MacMahon's Combinatory Analysis (1915 16), which provide a view of combinatorial theory as it existed before 1920.
Firms resist takeovers, rather than viewing them as the natural combinatory process of business, as in the West.Ironically, the very success of Japan's hidden technology champions is in part due to changes in the industry that have hammered Japan's big electronics firms.
Llull used logic and complex mechanical techniques (the Ars magna) involving symbolic notation and combinatory diagrams to relate all forms of knowledge, including theology, philosophy, and the natural sciences as analogues of one another and as manifestations of the godhead in the universe.
Later a more reliable combinatory method, in which passages expressing similar contents are compared in order to obtain a better understanding of a language's structure, was introduced.
The procedure sometimes called the combinatory method now appears to be the most efficacious if not indeed the only useful one.
Early results concerning Lydian were reached using a strictly combinatory method.
The combinatory musical style is perhaps too eclectic, yet also undeniably invigorating – like a shot of horseradish vodka.
Metaphor, Geary shows nicely, has its place in science (with Einstein's "combinatory play" of ideas), as well as being the natural pursuit of young children, two of whose offerings here – "quiet as a nose" and "sad as a shirt" – struck me as strangely lovely, though the author, a harsh critic of juvenile poets, says they "didn't make much sense".
In the new book, as in the earlier one, what is so remarkable is her combinatory genius.
Isaacson's answer, repeated like a mantra, lies precisely in the Leonardesque (or Jobsian) refusal to distinguish art from science, observation from imagination, and to attain a "combinatory creativity".
