
James Clerk Maxwell
1831–1879
Scottish mathematical physicist
Every existence above a certain rank has its singular points; the higher the rank the more of them. At these points, influences whose physical magnitude is too small to be taken account of by a finite being may produce results of the greatest importance.
TOPICS: physics, philosophy
Thus number may be said to rule the whole world of quantity, and the four rules of arithmetic may be regarded as the complete equipment of the mathematician.
TOPICS: numbers, arithmetic