First, it is necessary to study the facts, to multiply the number of observations, and then later to search for formulas that connect them so as thus…

- Augustin-Louis Cauchy

I shall never flaunt the little learning that I have acquired through the care and help my father has given me. If I have learned anything, it is onl…

- Augustin-Louis Cauchy

As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the ge…

- Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Residues arise... naturally in several branches of analysis... Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a…

- Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

- Augustin-Louis Cauchy

I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal… like all gr…

- Augustin-Louis Cauchy