Jevons's

The fact that UK households have only reduced their greenhouse gas emissions by 3% since 1990 (Heat is on homes, 2 February) may be a small-scale example of WS Jevons's paradox (The Coal Question, 1865).

Letters: The name's 509 2011

Contemporaries such as Boole and Robertson were very critical towards Jevons's use of mathematical symbols in logic.

William Stanley Jevons Mosselmans, Bert 2007

Jevons's theory, that the trade cycle was primarily due to the fluctuations in the bounty of the harvest, can be re-stated as follows.

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money 2003

Much the same may be said of my relation to the late Professor Jevons's Elementary Lessons in

Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

I have inserted a brief discussion of the subject with the hope that it will furnish a basis for a short study; it can be reenforced by a few weeks on such a manual as Jevons's "Primer of Logic," or Bode's "Outline of Logic" if there is time.

The Making of Arguments J. H. Gardiner

When, anon, I go to the fourth shelf, fifth book from the north side, to get "The Scarlet Letter", it will be to find "Pearson on the Creed" or Jevons's "Logic" in that identical spot.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

Edgeworth and Mr. Wicksteed, to whom Jevons appealed as a mathematician, were at that time trying to convince the academic world of the importance of Jevons's theory; but I, not being a mathematician, was not easily accessible to their methods of demonstration.

The History of the Fabian Society Edward R. Pease 1906

I was not only to witness to her innocence and Jevons's -- if they doubted it; I was to show them what she had shown me in the garden at Bruges, the beauty of the whole thing as it appeared to her.

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904

I gave Jevons's name and explained that the lady was Mrs. Jevons.

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904

I have known men (they were of the confraternity of letters) who declared that they could not understand why a man like Jevons, in Jevons's position, should have bothered his head for two minutes about his wife's family.

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904