💬 SenQuotes.com
 Quotes

Joseph-Louis Lagrange Quotes

Italian mathematician and astronomer (b. 1736), Birth: 25-1-1736, Death: 10-4-1813
1.
As long as algebra and geometry have been separated, their progress have been slow and their uses limited; but when these two sciences have been united, they have lent each mutual forces, and have marched together towards perfection.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange

2.
If I had inherited a fortune I should probably not have cast my lot with mathematics.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange

3.
It took the mob only a moment to remove his head; a century will not suffice to reproduce it.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange

4.
I do not know. [summarising his life's work]
Joseph-Louis Lagrange

5.
The ordinary operations of algebra suffice to resolve problems in the theory of curves.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Similar Authors: Bertrand Russell Blaise Pascal Alfred North Whitehead Isaac Newton Rene Descartes Gottfried Leibniz Jacob Bronowski Henri Poincare Charles Sanders Peirce Johannes Kepler Omar Khayyam Robert Smith G. H. Hardy Arthur Eddington Benoit Mandelbrot
6.
I regarded as quite useless the reading of large treatises of pure analysis: too large a number of methods pass at once before the eyes. It is in the works of application that one must study them; one judges their utility there and appraises the manner of making use of them.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange

7.
The reader will find no figures in this work. The methods which I set forth do not require either constructions or geometrical or mechanical reasonings: but only algebraic operations, subject to a regular and uniform rule of procedure.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange

8.
It has cost them but a moment to cut off that head; but a hundred years will not be sufficient to produce another like it.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange

Quote Topics by Joseph-Louis Lagrange: Math Science World Century Death Fortune Ordinary Should Problem Perfection Eye Uniforms Knows Genius Moments Cutting Mathematics Curves Long Reading Two Work Newton
9.
Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.
Joseph-Louis Lagrange