Analytics Quote by Nikolai Lobachevsky

The early study of Euclid made me a hater of geometry.

— James Joseph Sylvester

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

Geometry is the science of correct reasoning on incorrect figures.

— George Polya

“It is the same with mathematics, which would certainly not have arisen if it had been known from the beginning that in Nature there…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Euclid 's Elements has been for nearly twenty-two centuries the encouragement and guide of that scientific thought which is one thing with the…

— William Kingdon Clifford

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

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

“No very good sense can be given to the idea that the elements of Euclidean geometry may be found in nature because either everything…

— David Berlinski

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

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can…

— Rene Descartes

“Yet there have been and still are mathematicians and philosophers who doubt whether the whole universe, or to speak more widely, the whole of…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky