The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure. — 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 Image
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 Image
The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it. — Joseph-Louis Lagrange Copy Share Image
“{ 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 Image
"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 Image
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