Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace
1749–1827
French mathematician
All the effects of nature are only mathematical results of a small number of immutable laws.
TOPICS: nature
Such is the advantage of a well-constructed language that its simplified notation often becomes the source of profound theories.
TOPICS: notation
It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit.