Thomas Hobbes Quote

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.


On the proposition that the volume generated by revolving the region under 1/x from 1 to infinity has finite volume. Quoted in Mathematical Maxims and Minims by N. Rose (1988).


To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.