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- Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.
- The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in the arts. In…
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- Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology… — Fredric Jameson
- Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams… — Thomas Banchoff
- No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof. — Leonardo da Vinci
- We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we… — Rene Descartes
- The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry… — Guillaume Apollinaire
- It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by… — Felix Klein
- Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Brilliant. The Ontology Project is a post-graduate course in card magic. — Jim Steinmeyer