Occupation: Mathematician Birth: September 24, 1501 Death: September 21, 1576
To throw in a fair game at Hazards only three-spots, when something great is at stake, or some business is the hazard, is a natural occurrence and de….
Smell alone amongst the senses can either destroy or quite remake a man..
Mathematics, however, is, as it were, its own explanation; this, although it may seem hard to accept, is nevertheless true, for the recognition that ….
By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a m….
Those arts which are, to be sure, not finite, as geometry and arithmetic, do not suffer adornment; others, contrarily, are rather subject to division….
The greatest advantage in gambling lies in not playing at all..