Benjamin Peirce Quote

The strongest use of the symbol is to be found in its magical power of doubling the actual universe, and placing by its side an ideal universe, its exact counterpart, with which it can be compared and contrasted, and, by means of curiously connecting fibres, form with it an organic whole, from which modern analysis has developed her surpassing geometry.


On the Uses and Transformations of Linear Algebra (1875)


The strongest use of the symbol is to be found in its magical power of doubling the actual universe, and placing by its side an ideal universe, its...

The strongest use of the symbol is to be found in its magical power of doubling the actual universe, and placing by its side an ideal universe, its...

The strongest use of the symbol is to be found in its magical power of doubling the actual universe, and placing by its side an ideal universe, its...

The strongest use of the symbol is to be found in its magical power of doubling the actual universe, and placing by its side an ideal universe, its...