Frases de Joseph-Louis de Lagrange (9 citas)

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Frases célebres de Joseph-Louis de Lagrange

“Sólo hizo falta un instante para cortar su cabeza, pero es poco probable que cien años sean suficientes para que surja una igual.”

Joseph-Louis de Lagrange

Sobre Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (26 de agosto de 1743 — 8 de mayo de 1794), químico francés, considerado el creador de la química moderna. <br class="br">Fuente: The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections in Natural History http://books.google.es/books?id=wApMpVmi-5gC&pg=PA95. Stephen Jay Gould. Harvard University Press, 2011. ISBN 0-674-06167-5, pág. 95

“El lector no encontrará figuras en este trabajo. Los métodos que he establecido no requieren construcciones ni razonamientos geométricos o mecánicos: sólo operaciones algebraicas, sujetas a una regla de procedimiento regular y uniforme.”

Joseph-Louis de Lagrange

Fuente: Joseph-Louis Lagrange: Preface to Mécanique Analytique.

“Yo consideraba completamente inútil la lectura de grandes tratados de análisis puro: un número demasiado grande de métodos pasan una vez ante nuestros ojos. Es en los trabajos de aplicación donde uno debe estudiarlos, allí se juzga su utilidad y se evalúa la manera de hacer uso de ellos.”

Joseph-Louis de Lagrange

Fuente: Citado en: J. F. Maurice, Moniteur Universel (1814), pág. 228

Joseph-Louis de Lagrange: Frases en inglés

“I cannot say whether I will still be doing geometry ten years from now. It also seems to me that the mine has maybe already become too deep and unless one finds new veins it might have to be abandoned. Physics and chemistry now offer a much more glowing richness and much easier exploitation. Also, the general taste has turned entirely in this direction, and it is not impossible that the place of Geometry in the Academies will someday become what the role of the Chairs of Arabic at the universities is now.”

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Joseph Louis Lagrange

Letter to d'Alembert (1781) cited in R. Laubenbacher, D. Pengelly: Mathematical Expeditions: Chronicles by the Explorers (1999) Springer, pp. 233–234.

“An ancient writer said that arithmetic and geometry are the wings of mathematics; I believe one can say without speaking metaphorically that these two sciences are the foundation and essence of all the sciences which deal with quantity. Not only are they the foundation, they are also, as it were, the capstones; for, whenever a result has been arrived at, in order to use that result, it is necessary to translate it into numbers or into lines; to translate it into numbers requires the aid of arithmetic, to translate it into lines necessitates the use of geometry.”

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Joseph Louis Lagrange

Dans Les Leçons Élémentaires sur les Mathématiques (1795) Leçon cinquiéme, Tr. McCormack, cited in Moritz, Memorabilia mathematica or, The philomath's quotation-book (1914) Ch. 15 Arithmetic, p. 261. https://archive.org/stream/memorabiliamathe00moriiala#page/260/mode/2up

“As long as algebra and geometry proceeded along separate paths, their advance was slow and their applications limited. But when these sciences joined company, they drew from each other fresh vitality and thenceforward marched on at a rapid pace toward perfection.”

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Joseph Louis Lagrange

Dans Les Leçons Élémentaires sur les Mathématiques (1795) Leçon cinquiéme,Tr. McCormack, cited in Robert Edouard Moritz, Memorabilia mathematica or, The philomath's quotation-book (1914) Ch. V The teaching of mathematics, p. 81. https://archive.org/stream/memorabiliamathe00moriiala#page/80/mode/2up

“We have already various treatises on Mechanics, but the plan of this one is entirely new. I intend to reduce the theory of this Science, and the art of solving problems relating to it, to general formulae, the simple development of which provides all the equations necessary for the solution of each problem. I hope that the manner in which I have tried to attain this object will leave nothing to be desired. No diagrams will be found in this work. The methods that I explain require neither geometrical, nor mechanical, constructions or reasoning, but only algebraical operations in accordance with regular and uniform procedure. Those who love Analysis will see with pleasure that Mechanics has become a branch of it, and will be grateful to me for having thus extended its domain.”

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Joseph Louis Lagrange libro Mécanique analytique

Mécanique analytique (1788) as quoted by E. W. Hobson, Mathematics, from the points of view of the Mathematician and of the Physicist (1912) an address delivered to the Mathematical and Physical Society of University College London, p.13. https://books.google.com/books?id=H7Y_AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA13

“Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed, and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than once a system of the world to establish.”

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Joseph Louis Lagrange

As quoted by F. R. Moulton, Introduction to Astronomy (New York, 1906), p. 199.

“It took them only an instant to cut off that head, but France may not produce another like it in a century.”

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Joseph Louis Lagrange

As quoted by William Hughes, Annual Editions: Western Civilization (1997) p. 64; about the beheading of his friend Antoine Lavoisier.