I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share
The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share
It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share
“{ Comment to Delambre on chemist Antoine Lavoisier 's execution during the French Revolution } Only a moment to cut off that head and… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share
Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world… — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share
