Geometry

Thomas Hobbes

Philosophy

empiricism

1588–1679

"And Beasts that have Deliberation, must necessarily also have Will."

Archimedes

Science

-286–-211

"How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!"

🇩🇪Hermann Minkowski

Mathematics

1864–1909

"It would be very unsatisfactory if the new way of looking at the time-concept, which permits a Lorentz transformation, were to be confined to a single part of Physics."

George Salmon

Mathematics

1819–1904

"In early times of Christianity, even those who used animal food themselves came to think of the vegetarian as one who lived a higher life, and approached more nearly to Christian perfection."

🇬🇧Michael Atiyah

Mathematics

1929–2019

"This 'Hodge conjecture' has by now achieved a considerable status, almost on a par with the Riemann hypothesis or the Poincaré conjecture."

🇫🇷Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Mathematics

1789–1857

"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 … ."

Euclid

Mathematics

-333–-284

"The term 'axiom' was used by Proclus, but not by Euclid. He speaks, instead, of 'common notions'—common either to all men or to all sciences."

🇭🇺Paul Erdős

Mathematics

1913–1996

"It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time."

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

Mathematics

1792–1856

"There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world."

🇺🇸Oswald Veblen

Mathematics

1880–1960

"Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry."

🇫🇷Siméon Denis Poisson

Mathematics

1781–1840

"That which can affect our senses in any manner whatever, is termed matter."

🇺🇸Barry Mazur

Mathematics

b. 1937

"Number theory swarms with bugs, waiting to bite the tempted flower-lovers who, once bitten, are inspired to excesses of effort!"