Facility Quote by Felix Klein

“Projective geometry has opened up for us with the greatest facility new territories in our science, and has rightly been called the royal road to our particular field of knowledge.”

Felix Klein

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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

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Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending ... no first beginning.

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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

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