Analysis Quote by James Clerk Maxwell

“The association of multiplication with vector rotation was one of the geometric interpretation's most important elements because it decisively connected the imaginaries with rotary…

— David Stipp

Accordingly, we find Euler and D'Alembert devoting their talent and their patience to the establishment of the laws of rotation of the solid bodies.…

— James Clerk Maxwell

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

Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly prevailed in…

— Augustus De Morgan

It is interesting thus to follow the intellectual truths of analysis in the phenomena of nature. This correspondence, of which the system of the…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.

— Jean Dieudonne

We can... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of the truth…

— Hans Reichenbach

Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we…

— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Geometry is the art of correct reasoning from incorrectly drawn figures.

— Henri Poincare

...a major triumph of mathematical imagination: the use of visual imagery to condense a large quantity of information into a single comprehensible picture... Mathematicians…

— Ian Stewart

In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet…

— Nikolai Lobachevsky

Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature…

— Isaac Newton