Infinitesimals Quotes
- Just go on . . . and faith will soon return. To a friend hesitant with respect to infinitesimals. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite… — Abraham Robinson
- They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit… — Tobias Dantzig
- The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss… — Ann Voskamp
- The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heart-felt… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge