Quotes About Euler

#1. Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence.

Keith Devlin

#2. The person who did most to give to analysis the generality and symmetry which are now its pride, was also the person who made mechanics analytical; I mean Euler.

William Whewell

#3. Read Euler, read Euler, he is the master of us all.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#4. It is the invaluable merit of the great Basle mathematician Leonard Euler, to have freed the analytical calculus from all geometric bounds, and thus to have established analysis as an independent science, which from his time on has maintained an unchallenged leadership in the field of mathematics.

Thomas Reid

#5. You look like Euler's equation, he murmured as he looked me up and down.
Nerd translation: Euler's equation is said to be the most perfect formula ever written. Simple but elegant. Beautiful.

Cynthia Hand

#6. Carl Friedrich Gauss, often rated the greatest mathematician of all time, played the market. On a salary of 1,000 thalers a year, Euler left an estate of 170,587 thalers in cash and securities. Nothing is known of Gauss's investment methods.

William Poundstone

#7. Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention.

Richard Courant

#8. When Euler died, he simply said I am finished and collapsed, to which someone in the audience muttered darkly" Another conjecture of Euler is proved

Paul Erdos

#9. Euler calculated without effort, just as men breathe, as eagles sustain themselves in the air.

Francois Arago

#10. Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry!

Frederick The Great

#11. "Read Euler: he is our master in everything."

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#12. I am intentionally avoiding the standard term which, by the way, did not exist in Euler's time. One of the ugliest outgrowths of the "new math" was the premature introduction of technical terms.

George Polya

#13. As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.

Allen Evangelista

#14. For since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place in the universe in which some rule of maximum or minimum does not appear.

Leonhard Euler

#15. One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

Carolyn Heilbrun

#16. Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.

Leonhard Euler

#17. Failure to recognize the difficulty in escaping a situation of high debt intolerance simply through growth and gently falling ratios of debt to GNP is one of the central errors underlying many standard calculations employed both by the private sector and by official analysts during debt crises.

Anonymous

#18. A function of a variable quantity is an analytic expression composed in any way whatsoever of the variable quantity and numbers or constant quantities.

Leonhard Euler

#19. To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.

Leonhard Euler

#20. Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.

Leonhard Euler

#21. A man in love accepts everything

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#22. A thought had come to Thozan more than once: the ultimate reason we are set in this world is to break each other's hearts...

Nemo Euler

#23. Transcendental [numbers], They transcend the power of algebraic methods.

Leonhard Euler

#24. I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written.

George Orwell

#25. A FACE SEEN OUT of context creates confusion.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#26. After exponential quantities the circular functions, sine and cosine, should be considered because they arise when imaginary quantities are involved in the exponential.

Leonhard Euler

#27. Nothing takes place in the world whose meaning is not that of some maximum or minimum.

Leonhard Euler

#28. For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459 ... by the letter e.

Leonhard Euler

#29. Take risks, fall, get hurt and then take more risks. Stay away from those who affirm truths, who criticise those who do not think like them, people who have never once taken a step unless they were sure they would be respected

Paulo Coelho

#30. We went to the door and I let Asha in. I expected an uberawkward moment when he and Vayl met. But Asha took care of that problem right away. "So you belong to Jasmine," he said in his melancholy voice. It somehow delivered Vayl his deepest condolences without bearing a trace of malice toward me.

Jennifer Rardin

#31. Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.

Frank Miller

#32. The amazing thing about any movie is not whether it's good, but that it got made at all.

Frank Darabont

#33. I do not 'gallivant,'" Truzenzuzex commented primly. "I plan in haste.

Alan Dean Foster

#34. If you have trouble with finding things you should get into some kind of therapy with a good therapist if you need, I mean I just believe in therapy for everybody. I really do. I don't think any body can escape it.

Joy Behar

#35. Now I will have less distraction.

Leonhard Euler

#36. Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena.

Leonhard Euler

#37. In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.

Leonhard Euler

#38. Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

Leonhard Euler