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Mathematics

About This Item

  • Title: Mathematics
  • Date: Between 1850 and 1860
  • Creator(s): Walt Whitman
  • Whitman Archive ID: nyp.00071
  • Source: The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, New York Public Library. Transcribed from digital images of the original item. For a description of the editorial rationale behind our treatment of the manuscripts, see our statement of editorial policy.
  • Editorial note: At one time, this manuscript likely formed part of Whitman's cultural geography scrapbook. This manuscript is pasted down, making the verso inaccessible.
  • Contributors to digital file: Kevin McMullen Ashlyn Stewart
  • Cite this page: Whitman, Walt. "Mathematics." The Walt Whitman Archive. Gen. ed. Matt Cohen, Ed Folsom, & Kenneth M. Price. Accessed 14 February 2026. <http://www.whitmanarchive.org>.
  • Source File: nyp.00071.xml (TEI)

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Whitman's hand blue double overline and underline
Highlighting yellow background with top and bottom border
Paste-on gray box with black borders
Laid in white box with black borders
Erasure white text with dark gray background
Overwritten brown with strikethrough
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Mathematics

—The science that treats of quantity, whatever can be measured, numbered, &c.

Pure andor Speculative m. considers quantity abstractly, without relation to matter.

Mixed m. treats of magnitude, &c. as existing in material bodies

Arithmetic, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, &c. are branches of mathematics.—

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