Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and… — Catharine Cox Miles Copy Share Image
Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean… — George Polya Copy Share Image
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. — Arthur Cayley Copy Share Image
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The primes are the raw material out of which we have to build arithmetic, and Euclid's theorem assures us that we have… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought… — George Washington Copy Share Image
From Euclid to Newton there were straight lines. The modern age analyzes the wavers. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
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I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
Detest it as lewd intercourse, it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of… — Farkas Bolyai Copy Share Image
Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science, and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
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The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can… — Eric Bell Copy Share Image
“As to the need of improvement there can be no question whilst the reign of Euclid continues. My own idea of a… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
It is curious to observe the triumph of slight incidents over the mind; and what incredible weight they have in forming and… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“These estimates may well be enhanced by one from F. Klein (1849-1925), the leading German mathematician of the last quarter of the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
My venture investing career has three phases, all roughly 6-8 years long. The first, at Euclid, was software to Internet. The second,… — Fred Wilson Copy Share Image
Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
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