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Arthur Cayley
British
Mathematician
Born:
Aug 16
,
1821
Died:
Jan 26
,
1895
Another
Approximately
Beauty
Long
Think
Which
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As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Arthur Cayley
Beauty
Else
Everything
Everything Else
Perceived
Mathematical
Explained
Theory
Projective geometry is all geometry.
Arthur Cayley
Geometry
So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.
Arthur Cayley
Meeting
Worse
Evolution
Must
Individual
Sacrificed
Development
Particular
Principles
May
Which
Race
Much
Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.
Arthur Cayley
Experience
Space
Long
Our
Approximately
Has-Been
Physical
Only
Remain
Absolutely
True
Geometry
Been
Being
Regard
Regarded
Which
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