Coordinates Quote by Jean Dieudonne

“Two possibilities present themselves for the analytical treatment of metrical geometry.”

— Hermann Weyl

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Geometry is one of the handles of science and philosophy.

— Xenocrates

Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry.

— Stephen Hawking

Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors…

— Ibn Khaldun

I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

— Johannes Kepler

The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry…

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

— Johannes Kepler

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

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

— Jean Dieudonne