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"ARITHMETICUS" Virginia, Nevada. --
"If it would take a cannonball 3 1/8 seconds to travel four miles,
and 3 3/8 seconds to travel the next four, and 3 5/8 to travel the next four,
and if its rate of progress continued to diminish in the same ratio,
how long would it take to go fifteen hundred million miles?"
"I don't know."-Mark Twain
[Sam Clemens] from Answers to Correspondents
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"If it would take a cannonball 3 1/8 seconds to travel four miles,
and 3 3/8 seconds to travel the next four, and 3 5/8 to travel the next four,
and if its rate of progress continued to diminish in the same ratio,
how long would it take to go fifteen hundred million miles?"
"I don't know."-Mark Twain
[Sam Clemens] from Answers to Correspondents
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Jakob Bernoulli
Profession: mathematician.
Born 1654, Basel, Switzerland.
Died 1705, Basel, Switzerland.
Even as the finite encloses an infinite series,
And in the unlimited limits appear,
So the soul of immensity dwells in minuta
And in the narrowest limits, no limits inhere.
What joy to discern the minute in infinity!
The vast to perceive in the small, what Divinity!
Profession: mathematician.
Born 1654, Basel, Switzerland.
Died 1705, Basel, Switzerland.
Even as the finite encloses an infinite series,
And in the unlimited limits appear,
So the soul of immensity dwells in minuta
And in the narrowest limits, no limits inhere.
What joy to discern the minute in infinity!
The vast to perceive in the small, what Divinity!
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Lewis Carroll
Profession: logician.
Born 1832, Daresbury, England.
Died 1898, Guilford, England.
"It may well be doubted whether,
in all the range of science,
there is any field so fascinating
to the explorer
– so rich in hidden treasures –
so fruitful in delightful surprises –
as Pure Mathematics."
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Gauss, Karl Friedrich (1777-1855)
It is not knowledge, but the act of learning,
not possession but the act of getting there,
which grants the greatest enjoyment.
When I have clarified and exhausted a subject,
then I turn away from it,
in order to go into darkness again;
the never-satisfied man
is so strange
if he has completed a structure,
then it is not in order to dwell in it peacefully,
but in order to begin another.
I imagine the world conqueror must feel thus,
who, after one kingdom is scarcely conquered,
stretches out his arms for others.
Letter to Bolyai, 1808.
