For history, applied mathematics - for anything, in fact, outside the exact sciences - he felt something approaching to contempt.
Four out of his five papers on applied mathematics were sent up absolutely blank.
He was thus led to conclude that chemistry is a branch of applied mathematics and to endeavour to trace a law according to which the quantities of different bases required to saturate a given acid formed an arithmetical, and the quantities of acids saturating a given base a geometrical, progression.
In one sense there is no science of applied mathematics.
Number must indeed ever remain the great topic of mathematical interest, because it is in reality the great topic of applied mathematics.
