Because Quote by G. H. Hardy

“The Greeks were the first mathematicians who are still ‘real’ to us to-day. Oriental mathematics may be an interesting curiosity, but Greek mathematics is…

— G.H. Hardy

[The works of Archimedes] are without exception, monuments of mathematical exposition; the gradual revelation of the plan of attack, the masterly ordering of the…

— Thomas Little Heath

There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes…

— Voltaire

Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Surely with as good reason as had Archimedes to have the cylinder, cone and sphere engraved on his tombstone might our distinguished countrymen leave…

— James Joseph Sylvester

Aeschylus and Plato are remembered today long after the triumphs of Imperial Athens are gone. Dante outlived the ambitions of thirteenth century Florence. Goethe…

— John F. Kennedy

Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to…

— Eric Temple Bell

One feature which will probably most impress the mathematician accustomed to the rapidity and directness secured by the generality of modern methods is the…

— Thomas Little Heath

Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry…

— Archimedes

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

“Archimedes was a mathematician," blurted Ethan from the back of the room. "And he was Greek. And he invented things." Ethan was the sort…

— Adam Rex

A clever graduate student could teach Fourier something new, but surely no one claims that he could teach Archimedes to reason better.

— Paul Halmos