Bernard Bolzano quotes

Bernard Bolzano quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.”
-- Bernard Bolzano

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“My special pleasure in mathematics rested particularly on its purely speculative part.”
-- Bernard Bolzano

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“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.”
-- Bernard Bolzano

Source : Bernard Bolzano (2014). “Paradoxes of the Infinite (Routledge Revivals)”, p.84, Routledge

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