I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account.

Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.

The beginning of 1856 found me teaching in the family of a planter named Bryan, residing in Prince George County, Md., some fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.

Until I was four years old I lived in the house of my paternal grandfather, about two miles from the pretty little village of Wallace, at the mouth of the river of that name.

As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an apparent, perhaps a real, anomaly, some account of it may be of interest.

One of the most beautiful hypotheses ever propounded in physics is ... the Dynamical Theory of Gases

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.