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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.

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As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.

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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.

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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.

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Mathematics connect themselves on the one side with common life and the physical sciences; on the other side with philosophy, in regard to our notions of space and time, and in the questions which have arisen as to the universality and necessity of the truths of mathematics, and the foundation of our knowledge of them.

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Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

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Arthur Cayley

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Born: August 16, 1821
Died: January 26, 1895 (aged 73)
Bio: Arthur Cayley F.R.S. was a British mathematician. He helped found the modern British school of pure mathematics.
Known for:
  1. An Elementary Treatise on Elliptic Functions (1876)
  2. The Life of Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight V2

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