The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.

  • -- Eric Temple Bell 埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔

过去数学上的错误和未解决的困难一直是数学未来的机遇。

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Now being in such grace and favor by reason I learned him some points of geometry and understanding of the art of mathematics with other things, I pleased him so that what I said he would not contrary.

现在,由于受到这样的恩宠,我学会了一些几何学的知识,用其他的东西来理解数学的艺术,我使他高兴,所以我说的话他不会反对。

Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

每个人都知道曲线是什么,直到他学习了足够多的数学知识,对无数可能的例外感到困惑。