“I feel entitled to hope that I have found in this new analysis the only natural method according to which mathematics should be applied to nature, and according to which geometry may also be treated, whenever it leads to general and to fruitful results.”

Ausdehnungslehre (1844)

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German polymath, linguist and mathematician 1809–1877

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