Francois Viete quotes
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“There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.”
-- Francois VieteSource : François Viète, T. Richard Witmer (2006). “The Analytic Art”, p.11, Courier Corporation
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“Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.”
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“There is no problem that cannot be solved.”
-- Francois Viete
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“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”
Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967
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Source : "The Heart of Things".
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