Mathematicians will never have enough time to read... • shapes, figures & forms

Posted on Sunday, 16 September 2012

Mathematicians will never have enough time to read all the discoveries in Geometry (a quantity which is increasing from day to day and seems likely in this scientific age to develop to enormous proportions) if they continue to be presented in a rigorous form according to the manner of the ancients.

Christiaan Huygens, AD 1659

(from John Stillwell p 146)

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