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Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I beg pardon of those delicate spirits who are detractors of mathematics for saying this .... The imagination in a mathematician who creates makes no less difference than in a poet who invents.... Of all the great men of antiquity, Archimedes may be the one who most deserves to be placed beside Homer.
Discours Preliminaire de L'Encyclopedie, Tome 1, 1967. pp 47 - 48.
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Mathematical Treasures
Leonhard Euler's Algebra
This is the title page of the French edition of the Algebra of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783). The text was originally published in German in 1767 in St. Petersburg and then translated into French in 1795. An English version appeared in 1840 and was reprinted in 1984 by Springer-Verlag.