“Kepler followed Proclus and believed that 'the main goal of Euclid was to build a geometric theory of the so-called Platonic solids.'… — C. Smoryński Copy Share Image
We think of Euclid as of fine ice; we admire Newton as we admire the peak of Teneriffe. Even the intensest labors,… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
Every night as I gazed up at the window I said softly to myself the word paralysis. It had always sounded strangely… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I… — Bernard Bolzano Copy Share Image
I was interviewed on the Israeli radio for five minutes and I said that more than 2000 years ago, Euclid proved that… — Noga Alon Copy Share Image
I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid-a term used in this work to… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in… — Bernhard Riemann Copy Share Image
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
