“It is a matter for considerable regret that Fermat, who cultivated the theory of numbers with so much success.”

And all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

These … tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences.

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other.

And have even substituted extensive theories for the isolated propositions of Fermat.

did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered.

Are one of the most beautiful monuments ever erected to science.

But there are several proofs which have resisted their efforts.

In truth, Messrs Euler and Lagrange, who have not disdained this kind of research, have proved most of these theorems.

The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man’s quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.

It is remarkable that men, when they differ in what they think considerable, will be apt to differ in almost everything else; their difference begets contradiction; contradiction begets heat; heat quickly rises into resentment, rage, and ill-will; thus they differ in affections, as they differ in judgment.

We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I’m going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

People who don’t know anything tend to make up fake rules, the real rules being considerably more difficult to learn.