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| For it is unworthy of excellent men to lose
hours like slaves in the labor of calculation which could safely be relegated
to anyone else if machines were used. Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) German Mathematician and Philosopher, (1) p. 153 |
| It is India that gave us the ingenious method
of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving
a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important
idea which apears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. Pierre Simon de Laplace (1749-1827) French Mathematician, (1) p. 135 |
| It is true that Fourier has the opinion that
the principal object of mathematics is the public utliity and the explanation
of natural phenomena; but a scientist like him ought to know that the unique
object of science is the honor of the human spirit and on this basis a question
of the theory of numbers is worth as much as a question about the planetary
system. Carl Jacobi (1804-1851) German Mathematician, (1) p. 395 |
| Maintained by Michele Olsen, College of the Redwoods |