"The definition of a limit is essentially his……" — David Berlinski
"The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon."
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29 Quotes by David Berlinski
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The calculus is the story this [the Western] world first told itself as it became the modern world.
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