Analytical Quote by Hermann Weyl

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

— Arthur Cayley

In America, a metrical poem is likely to conjure up the idea of the sort of poet who wears ties and lunches at the…

— Joseph Brodsky

If life is not always poetical, it is at least metrical.

— Alice Meynell

In geometric and physical applications, it always turns out that a quantity is characterized not only by its tensor order, but also by symmetry.

— Hermann Weyl

“The Greeks made Space the subject-matter of a science of supreme simplicity and certainty. Out of it grew, in the mind of classical antiquity,…

— Hermann Weyl

Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as…

— Hermann Weyl

I have an infamously low capacity for visualizing relationships, which made the study of geometry and all subjects derived from it impossible for me.

— Sigmund Freud

Let no-one ignorant of geometry enter. Said to have been inscribed above the door of Plato's Academy.

— Plato

Cryptography has generated number theory, algebraic geometry over finite fields, algebra, combinatorics and computers.

— Vladimir Arnold

No one fully understands spinors. Their algebra is formally understood but their general significance is mysterious. In some sense they describe the 'square root'…

— Michael Atiyah

Geometry is the most complete science.

— David Hilbert

Regular geometry, the geometry of Euclid, is concerned with shapes which are smooth, except perhaps for corners and lines, special lines which are singularities,…

— Benoit Mandelbrot