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Abel Niels: studying the masters
Alexander Jane: when we
teach a child
Alger, William: line,
diagonal
Archimedes: diagram,
eureka
Aristophanes: the geometer
Meton
Aristotle: limit, point, line,
plane, solid
Atiyah Michael
Importance of geometry
Banach Stefan: ultimate mathematician
Bell, Eric T.: Euclid taught
me
Cartier-Bresson: Photography
Cayley Arthur, Projective Geometry
Steven Chu: Exciting course
Cibber Colley: circle,
true shape
Cocteau Jean: freedom
Cronkite Walter: pyramids
Coxeter H.S.M.: I’m a Platonist
Crelle August: triangle
properties
Cudworth, Ralph: sense, line,
mind, circle
Dee John: Elements
Descartes: Cogito, ergo sum, reasoning
Video
Annie Dillard: Crystals
Dürer, Albrecht: art, geometry,
painting
Einstein: Circles,
Pythagoras
Emerson Ralph: square,
circle, man
Escher: Tessellation
Euclid: no royal road
Euripides: Geometry,
art, reason
Eves,
Howard: Problem solver
Fermat, Pierre de: Last theorem
Fontenelle: Geometrical
method, elegant
Ford, Henry: Angle, quality
Freud: visualizing, study of
geometry
Freudenthal: Space
Galileo: The Universe, math
language
Gide, Andre: angle, oblique
Garcia
Lorca, Federico: Geometry & anguish
Gracian Baltasar: circumference,
time
I.N.
Herstein: problem solver
Hardy G.H.: Reductio ad
absurdum, Euclid
Hobbes Thomas: Leviathan, Pythagoras
Howe, Edgar Watson:
High School
Ibn Khaldun: Intellect
Juster
Norton: Line & Dot |
Kepler
Geometry, God, matter
Jacques Lacan: Locus
Lafayette: Liberty
Lagrange: Algebra
Comte de Lautreamont: Trinity
Lemoine
Emile mathematical truth
Leonardo:
Proof
Lincoln: Euclid
Lobachevsky:
Parallels
Mandelbrot: fractals
Mencius: Compass
Mondrian: lines
Napoleon: Axiom
Newton: principles
Nietzsche: pyramid
Pappus: bees
Pascal: Nature
Pedersen: skill
Pei: design
Plato:
Let no man ignorant
Plutarch: Archimedes
Poincaré: natural selection
Polya: elegance
of a theorem
Proclus: Egypt
Pushkin: inspiration
Pythagoras: music,
knowledge
Regiomontanus: triangle
Riemann: proofs
Rodin: sentiment
Erno Rubik:
3-D forms
Russell: Euclid
Swift, J: Gulliver
Thales: thought
Valéry: similar figures
Victor Hugo:
circle and ellipse
Voltaire: no sects
Warren Bennis: manager &
leaders
Whitehead: 4-D
Wigner: Pi
Williams, T.:Line
Wittgenstein:
Law of physics and geometry |
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by Robert A. Nowlan, Robert A. Nowlan (Editor)
(Paperback)
This work contains almost 3,000 quotations, arranged under 38 chapters and 389 subsections, that present quotations over a spectrum stretching to infinity. A few of the many areas covered: the God hypothesis, historical origins, linguistics, the arts, mathematicians themselves, logic, real and idealized space, number theory, algebra, computers, probability theory, and statistics. Immensely useful for speeches, papers, and presentations - and entertaining for browsing. Fully indexed by author and keyword. |
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