Arthur Cayley Quotes

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• As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
• Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
• Projective geometry is all geometry.
• Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been…
• So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for…
• And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that…
• But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best…
• Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

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