In the use of this method (of infinities) the pupil must be awake and thinking, for when the infinite is employed in an argument by the unskilled, the conclusion is often most absurd.


In: Eli Maor, To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite (p. 34), Birkhäuser. 1987

Elisha Scott Loomis Quotes

In the use of this method (of infinities) the pupil must be awake and thinking, for when the infinite is employed in an argument by the unskilled,...

In the use of this method (of infinities) the pupil must be awake and thinking, for when the infinite is employed in an argument by the unskilled,...

In the use of this method (of infinities) the pupil must be awake and thinking, for when the infinite is employed in an argument by the unskilled,...

In the use of this method (of infinities) the pupil must be awake and thinking, for when the infinite is employed in an argument by the unskilled,...