On a Method for Studying a Certain Class of Regularities in a Series of Observations With Application to the Temperature-Curve of Uppsala Inaugural Dissertation (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from On a Method for Studying a Certain Class of Regularities in a Series of Observations With Application to the Temperature-Curve of Uppsala: Inaugural Dissertation In the last two cases we have the great advantage of knowing the acting forces and their periods of variation and we have thus only to examine a limited number of periods in the observed variations. In those cases, however, when we do not know the forces causing the variations and still less the laws of their action, it is probable that we can employ a similar operation to find a mathematical expression for the observed and the future variations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.