Augustus De Morgan Quote

It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with his heifer; you must see with his light, if you want to know how much he saw.


Letter to W. R. Hamilton, 27 January 1853


It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with his heifer; you must...

It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with his heifer; you must...

It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with his heifer; you must...

It was long before I got at the maxim, that in reading an old mathematician you will not read his riddle unless you plough with his heifer; you must...