Jean-Étienne Montucla Quote

No one ever squared the circle with so much genius, or, excepting his principal object, with so much success.


Attributed to Montucla in Augustus De Morgan, A Budget of Paradoxes, (London, 1872), p. 96; Cited in: Robert Edouard Moritz. Memorabilia mathematica; or, The philomath's quotation-book, (1914) p. 366


No one ever squared the circle with so much genius, or, excepting his principal object, with so much success.

No one ever squared the circle with so much genius, or, excepting his principal object, with so much success.

No one ever squared the circle with so much genius, or, excepting his principal object, with so much success.

No one ever squared the circle with so much genius, or, excepting his principal object, with so much success.