Benjamin Peirce Quotes
- The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the veil…
- Gentlemen, as we study the universe we see everywhere the most tremendous manifestations of force. In our own experience we know of but one source…
- Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it,…
- Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.
- Of possible quadruple algebras the one that had seemed to him by far the most beautiful and remarkable was practically identical with quaternions, and that…