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Joseph-Louis Lagrange

If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.

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genius joseph-louis lagrange

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.

genius joseph-louis lagrange

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.

genius joseph-louis lagrange

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them.

genius joseph-louis lagrange

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.

genius joseph-louis lagrange

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.

genius joseph-louis lagrange

Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Only a moment to cut off that head and a hundred years may not give us another like it.