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“Complete knowledge of the nature of an analytic function must also include insight into its behavior for imaginary values of the arguments. Often the latter is indispensable even for a proper appreciation of the behavior of the function for real arguments. It is therefore essential that the original determination of the function concept be broadened to a domain of magnitudes which includes both the real and the imaginary quantities, on an equal footing, under the single designation complex numbers.”

“Value denotes a relation reciprocally existing between two objects, and the precise relation which it denotes is the quantity of the one which can be obtained in exchange for a given quantity of the other.”

Two Values Given Objects Relation Quantity Precise

Book:An Outline of the Science of Political Economy

Source: An Outline of the Science of Political Economy

“Wales was in ancient times divided into three parts nearly equal, consideration having been paid, in this division, more to the value than to the just quantity or proportion of territory.”

Values Three Equal Paid Ancient Proportion Consideration Division Divided Territory Quantity Wales Ancient Times

Author:Gerald of Wales

“The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical values of the quantities as measured by his own national units, would obtain a true result.”

Persons Values Nations Results Quantity Units Equations

Book:The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:

Source: The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell:

“The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great.”

Mean Matter Values Greater Limits Infinite Assuming Quantity Finite Variables

Author:Georg Cantor

“Possessing utility, commodities derive their exchangeable value from two sources: from their scarcity, and from the quantity of labour required to obtain them.”

Two Values Source Labour Quantity Commodity Utility Possessing Scarcity

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“The demand for money is regulated entirely by its value, and its value by its quantity.”

Values Demand Quantity

Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“As the revenue of the farmer is realized in raw produce, or in the value of raw produce, he is interested, as well as the landlord, in its high exchangeable value, but a low price of produce may be compensated to him by a great additional quantity.”

Wells May Values Produce Lows Farmers Quantity Revenue Landlord

Book:The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

Source: The Works of David Ricardo. With a notice of the life and writings of the author: by J. R. McCulloch

“If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.”

Ifs Way Might Would Be Values Labour Quantity Commodity Gratification Scarce Destitute

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“Once public opinion is convinced that the increase in the quantity of money will continue and never come to an end, and that consequently the prices of all commodities will not cease to rise, everybody becomes eager to buy as much as possible and restrict his cash holdings to minimum size... If the credit expansion is not stopped in time, the boom turns to crack-up boom: the flight into real values begins, and the whole monetary system founders.”

“The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.”

Real Would Be Certain Values Found Answers Results Numbers Saws Pages Areas Mathematics Filled Fixed Assumption Formulas Quantity Volume Units Counting Messy Notebook Integers

Book:Three Roads To Quantum Gravity

Source: Three Roads To Quantum Gravity

“Value is the life-giving power of anything; cost, the quantity of labour required to produce it; its price, the quantity of labourwhich its possessor will take in exchange for it.”

Giving Values Produce Cost Labor Labour Quantity

Book:The Crown of Wild Olive

Source: The Crown of Wild Olive