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Joseph-Louis Lagrange Quotes:

Joseph-Louis Lagrange quotes

Ocupation: Mathematician

Life: January 25, 1736 - April 10, 1813

Birthday: January 25

Death: April 10

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

Topics: Mathematics, Should, Fortune

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It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.

Topics: Cutting, Years, Cost

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.

Topics: Two, Long, Perfection

"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."

source: - "Introduction to Astronomy" by F. R. Moulton, New York, (p. 199), 1906.

Topics: Genius, World, Newton

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.

Topics: Work, Uniforms, Construction

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.

Topics: Reading, Eye, Science, Appraise

It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.

Topics: Math, Moments, Century

I do not know. [summarising his life's work]

Topics: Knows

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

Topics: Curves, Ordinary, Problem

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