Analysis Quote by Thomas Reid

“It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.”

Thomas Reid

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The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

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