Analysis Quote by Stanislaw Lem

'You might think of combinatorics as a machine too', the major says. 'A different sort of machine, though. Have you heard of Babbage's analytic…

— David Leavitt

I knew that he was as reliable as a mathematical formula.

— Augusten Burroughs

I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly taken his…

— Voltaire

He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took…

— Virginia Woolf

“He went back to Iowa State, considered changing his major to mathematics, but didn’t. It was the consensus of all whom he consulted that…

— Neal Stephenson

I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the…

— Joseph-Louis Lagrange

I studied under Elmer Bernstein.

— Bear McCreary

“The beginning, the laying down of the fundamentals, was always the worst part, which he supposed was why so few people did it.”

— Lev Grossman

“His ironing seemed highly rational, with a constant speed that allowed him to get the best results, with the least effort; all the economy…

— Yōko Ogawa

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.

— Hedy Lamarr

My life as a working theorist began three months after this preliminary study and background reading, when Oscar gently nudged me toward working on…

— Rudolph A. Marcus

An issue that really concerned me when I was on the House Intelligence Committee was the quality of analysis.

— Pete Hoekstra