The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.
I do not know. [summarising his life's work] - Joseph-Louis Lagrange
I do not know. [summarising his life's work]
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics. - Joseph-Louis Lagrange
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves. - Joseph-Louis Lagrange
The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.
I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the… - Joseph-Louis Lagrange
I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the…
Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish. - Joseph-Louis Lagrange
Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been unit… - Joseph-Louis Lagrange
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been unit…
It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it. - Joseph-Louis Lagrange
It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonin… - Joseph-Louis Lagrange
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonin…
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it. - Joseph-Louis Lagrange
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
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