“[Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department existed. Today it is a commonplace in all the leading universities. Peirce stood alone-a mountain peak whose absolute height might be hard to measure, but which towered above all the surrounding country.” CountryHardMightTodayScienceMountainResearchAbsolutesMathematicsUniversityMathematicalHeightDepartmentCommonplaceMountain Peaks Author:Julian Coolidge
“Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The present author humbly confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art.” IfsMayArtWholeScienceClaimsDetailsVarietyBranchesConsistencyEleganceGeometryReconcileRigour Book:A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves Source: A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves