What Isaac Newton thinks about mathematics

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English mathematician and physicist (1642 to 1727), Lucasian professor at Cambridge and later Master of the Royal Mint; author of the Principia and the Opticks.

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1. c. 1704–1718

   Our readingIn natural philosophy, as in mathematics, analysis should always come before synthesis

   Their wordsAs in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition.

   ↗Opticks (fourth edition, 1730)gutenberg.org All 8 from this book