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Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in…

— Ada Lovelace

“Her exposition took the form of notes lettered A through G, extending to nearly three times the length of Menabrea’s essay. They offered a…

— James Gleick

The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made…

— William Whewell

It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus…

— Thomas Reid

The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method-more daring than anything that the…

— Nicholas Murray Butler

“These researches renewed his commitment to analysis, which he now conceived more as a means to produce personal growth than as a technique for…

— Anthony Stevens

The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform... But it…

— Ada Lovelace

“...and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.”

— W.W. Rouse Ball

Geometry is the noblest branch of physics.

— William Fogg Osgood

“The focus of history and philosophy of science scholar Arthur Miller’s (2010) "137: Jung and Pauli and the Pursuit of Scientific Obsession" is Jung…

— Todd Hayen

Sir Arthur Eddington deduces religion from the fact that atoms do not obey the laws of mathematics. Sir James Jeans deduces it from the…

— Bertrand Russell

When it was first proposed to establish laboratories at Cambridge, Todhunter, the mathematician, objected that it was unnecessary for students to see experiments performed,…

— Bertrand Russell