Archimedes of Syracus (287-212 B. C. E) Give me a place to stand, and I will move the earth. Dont spoil my circles! (or Do not disturb my circles!) There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics. Aristotle (384-322 B. C. E) Now what is characteristic of any nature is that which is best for it and gives most joy. Such a man is the life according to reason, since it is that which makes him man. There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel. The so-called Pythagoreans, who were the first to take up mathematics, not only advanced this subject, but saturated with it, they fancied that the principles of mathematics were the principles of all things. To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it. If this is a straight line [showing his audience a straight line drawn by a ruler], then it necessarily ensues that the sum of the angles of the triangle is equal to two right angles, and conversely, if the sum is not equal to two right angles, then neither is the triangle rectilinear. Heri Bergson (1859-1941) One can always reason with reason. Janos Bolyai (1802-1860) I have created a new universe from nothing. One must do not violence to nature, nor model it in conformity to any blindly formed chimaera. Bernhard Bolzano (1781-1848) My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part. Even in the realm of things which do not claim actuality, and do not even claim possibility, there exist beyond dispute sets which are infinite. George Boole (1815-1869) It is not of the essence of mathematics to be occupied with the ideas of number and quantity. No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. From the world wildweb . https://math.okstate.edu/~wli/teach/fmq.html GROUP#3 MATH .
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