For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtle….

Poor teaching leads to the inevitable idea that the subject (mathematics) is only adapted to peculiar minds, when it is the one universal science and….

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone..

If we except the great name of Newton (and the exception is one that the great Gauss himself would have been delighted to make) it is probable that n….

It is the peculiar beauty of this method, gentlemen, and one which endears it to the really scientific mind, that under no circumstance can it be of ….