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

Augustus De Morgan Quotes

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...