Cauchy's 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. I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing.

George Carlin

#3. For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody's got to give up a little bit of their individuality.

Bill Belichick

#4. There are times when one friend requires the blind faith of another ...

Libba Bray

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

Jordan Ellenberg

#6. To this day I still watch tons of horror.

Christopher Bollen

#7. But I am like the grass, I can not love you.

Ezra Pound

#8. 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

#9. The Answer is answer of another question beyond that question.

Deyth Banger

#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. Between two of the joists, backlit by a bare dust-coated bulb in a white ceramic socket, a fat spider danced from string to string, plucking from its silken harp a music beyond human hearing. Bibi

Dean Koontz

#12. 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

#13. [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

#14. Academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil - or opportunity - life's vicissitudes bring.

Daniel Goleman

#15. 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

#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. I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.

Matt De La Pena

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

Augustin-Louis Cauchy

#19. Annis had never been a people person, unless 'people person' was defined as a person who ate people.

Derek Landy

#20. Words represent images: nothing can be said for which there is no image.

Frederick Sommer

#21. Having small touches of colour makes it more colourful than having the whole thing in colour.

Dieter Rams