 | Voltaire - Philosophy - 1843 - 644 pages
...of mathematics. An inventor must begin with painting correctly in his mind the figure, the marhine invented by him, and its properties or effects. We...exaggerated, or unsuitable to the nature of the subject. The greai fault of some writers who have appeared since the age of Louis XIV. is, attempting a constant... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - Mathematics - 1914 - 436 pages
...(1889), p. 219. 259. There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. . . . We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. VOLTAIRE. A Philosophical Dictionary (Boston, 1881), Vol. 3, p. 40. Article " Imagination." 260. As... | |
 | Mathematics - 1915 - 830 pages
...conclusion. — Herbart, FJ There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. . . . We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. — Voltaire. Mathematics, like dialectics, is an organ of the inner higher sense; in its execution... | |
 | Mining and Metallurgical Society of America - Metallurgy - 1920 - 236 pages
...many volumes of geometry." The perfect complement to this idea is Voltaire's assertion that "there was more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer," no doubt for 57 the reason that Archimedes knew Homer while Homer was unacquainted with Archimedes.... | |
 | Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - Education - 1917 - 558 pages
...demands imagination of its followers, and it bestows imagination upon its devotees. Voltaire once said, "There was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer;" and Hennite, the French mathematician, advised that children be nourished with fairy-tales as the best... | |
 | Lynn Thorndike - Civilization - 1926 - 702 pages
...mathematician, though his treatises are original investigations, not elementary textbooks. Voltaire said that "there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer." He calculated the value of IT, determined the areas of such figures as the ellipse, parabola, and surface... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - Science - 1991 - 312 pages
...twice a pervert'. 35 There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. . .. We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. A Philoiphical Dictionary 1881, 3, 40 (Boston) 36 'Travaillons sans raisonner,' dit Martin; 'c'est... | |
 | Frank Burk - Mathematics - 1997 - 316 pages
...+ 2aXc x~(XB_ Xc) and = -a(XB-Xc)\ QB = aX\ - [aX2c + 2aXc(XB - Xc)} = a(XB-Xc}\ we are done. . . . there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. — Voltaire Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten because languages die and mathematical... | |
 | Midhat J. Gazalé - Mathematics - 2000 - 340 pages
...perhaps insurmountable paradoxes concealed in three little suspension dots. HORROR INFINITI? There was more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. (Voltaire) Aristotle wrote, "Infinity is not perfection. It is privation, the absence of a limit."... | |
 | Joachim von zur Gathen, Jürgen Gerhard - Computers - 2003 - 804 pages
...Joseph Sylvester < 1853) 1 There is an astonishing imagination in mathematics. [... ] There was tar more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. 2 Leibniz believed he saw the image of creation in his binary arithmetic in which he employed only... | |
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We repeat there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer. 
