“To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.”

On the proposition that the volume generated by revolving the region under 1/x from 1 to infinity has finite volume. Quoted in Mathematical Maxims and Minims by N. Rose (1988)

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English philosopher, born 1588 1588–1679

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