Arthur Cayley
Arthur Cayley
Arthur Cayley F.R.S.was a British mathematician. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMathematician
Date of Birth16 August 1821
thinking may speak
But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested.
science geometry
Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.
space long geometry
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
math geometry
Projective geometry is all geometry.
beauty math theory
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
infinite modern mathematics
Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.
race development may
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
thinking views president
And in another point of view, I think it is right that the address of a president should be on his own subject, and that different subjects should be thus brought in turn before the meetings.