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Quote by Robert Recorde

“Besides the mathematical arts there is no infallible knowledge, except that it be borrowed from them.”

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Robert Recorde, born in 1512 and died in 1558, was a renowned British physician and mathematician. He made significant contributions to both the fields of medicine and mathematics, particularly for his improvements to mathematical notation, which had a profound impact on later generations. more

“I think mathematics is a vast territory. The outskirts of mathematics are the outskirts of mathematical civilization. There are certain subjects that people learn about and gather together. Then there is a sort of inevitable development in those fields. You get to the point where a certain theorem is bound to be proved, independent of any particular individual, because it is just in the path of development.”

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“I met a man once who told me that far from believing in the square root of minus one, he didn't believe in minus one. This is at any rate a consistent attitude.”

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Author:Edward Charles Titchmarsh

“There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the former as something in physical space but not the latter. Actually √-1 is a much simpler concept.”

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Author:Edward Charles Titchmarsh

“Algebra goes to the heart of the matter at it ignores the casual nature of particular cases.”

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Author:Edward Charles Titchmarsh

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