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Carl B. Boyer
Born
in The United States
November 03, 1903
Died
April 26, 1976
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“Voltaire called the calculus "the Art of numbering and measuring exactly a Thing whose Existence cannot be conceived."
See Letters Concerning the English Nation p. 152”
― The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
See Letters Concerning the English Nation p. 152”
― The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
“Definitions of number, as given by several later mathematicians, make the limit of an infinite sequence identical with the sequence itself. Under this view, the question as to whether the variable reaches its limit is without logical meaning. Thus the infinite sequence .9, .99, .999,... is the number one, and the question, "Does it ever reach one?" is an attempt to give a metaphysical argument which shall satisfy intuition.”
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“Now we can see what makes mathematics unique. Only in mathematics is there no significant correction—only extension. Once the Greeks had developed the deductive method, they were correct in what they did, correct for all time. Euclid was incomplete and his work has been extended enormously, but it has not had to be corrected. His theorems are, every one of them, valid to this day.”
― A History of Mathematics
― A History of Mathematics
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