Joseph-Louis Lagrange Quotes
- It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.
- As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been…
- If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
- "Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to…
- 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:…
- I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes.…