Cauchy Quotes

#1. The definition of a limit is essentially his [Cauchy's] creation and is as much of a miracle as those fantastic Swiss clocks of the period in which hundreds of gleaming cogs are made to celebrate not only the time and date but the phases of the moon.

David Berlinski

#2. Cauchy was not interested in the needs of engineers. Cauchy was interested in the truth.

Jordan Ellenberg

#3. A mathematician will recognise Cauchy, Gauss, Jacobi or Helmholtz after reading a few pages, just as musicians recognise, from the first few bars, Mozart, Beethoven or Schubert.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#4. I often say to prospective clients, 'Nothing will age faster than your hardware.' Even the thinnest touch screen will look like a toaster oven in a number of years.

Jake Barton

#5. A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.

Emily Post

#6. Why'd you come to me?"
"Really?"
"Yeah."
"I care less about letting you down.

Jonathan Tropper

#7. I am a Christian which means that I believe in the deity of Christ, like Tycho de Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Leibnitz, Pascal ... like all great astronomers mathematicians of the past.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#8. Your very silence shows you agree.

Euripides

#9. Americans were happy to celebrate their super-rich and, at least sometimes, worry about their poor. But putting those two conversations together and talking about economic inequality was pretty much taboo.

Chrystia Freeland

#10. I shall never flaunt the little learning that I have acquired through the care and help my father has given me. If I have learned anything, it is only because he took care to teach me. Had he not taken upon himself the trouble of instructing me, I would be as ignorant as many other children.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#11. [I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.

G.H. Hardy

#12. If Jesus isn't enough for the church, why would he be enough for the world?

Christine Caine

#13. Residues arise ... naturally in several branches of analysis ... Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results ...

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#14. The grass is always greener on the other side. We are busy applying fairness creams while people in the West go bare-bodied on the beach to get a tan. Indian girls have ruled the roost when it comes to beauty pageants. I flaunt my complexion, and I am proud to be noticed as an Indian wherever I go.

Shilpa Shetty

#15. A successful object is one which exists beyond its own reality, which creates a dual (and not merely interactlve) relation (with its users also), a relation of contradiction, misappropriation and destablilisation.

Jean Baudrillard

#16. As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra.

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#17. Power resides where men believe it resides. No more and no less.

George R R Martin

#18. Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#19. I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways ... It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Gordon Willis