Augustin Louis Cauchy quotes

... very often the laws derived by physicists from a large number of observations are not rigorous, but approximate. (Augustin Louis Cauchy)
Residues arise ... naturally in several branches of analysis .... Their consideration provides simple and easy-to-use methods, which are applicable to a large number of diverse questions, and some new results .... View quote
Augustin Louis Cauchy
I am a sincere Catholic as it were Corneille, Racine, La Bruyère, Bossnet, Bourdaloue, Fènelon, as were and still are so many of the most of the honor of out science, philosophy and literature, and have conferred such brilliant ustre on our Academies. I share the deep conviction openly manifested in words, deeds and writings by so many savants of the first rank, by a Ruffini, a Haüy, a Laënnec, an Ampere, a Pelletier, a Freycinet, a Coriolis and I avoid naming any of those living, for fear of paining their podesty. I may at least be allowed to say that I loved to recognize all the noble generosity of the Christian Faith in my illustrious friends the creator of Crystallography (Haüy), the introducers of quinine and stethoscope (Pelletier and Laënnec), the famous voyager on board of the 'Urania', and the immortal founders of the theory of Dynamic Electricity. View quote
Augustin Louis Cauchy
I am a Christian, that is, I believe in the divinity of Christ, as did Tycho Brahe, Copernicus, Descartes, Newton, Fermat, Leibniz, Pascal, Grimaldi, Euler, Guldin; Boscovich, Gerdil, as did all the great astronomers, physicist and geometricians of past ages. View quote
Augustin Louis Cauchy
As translated by Julio Antonio Gonzalo (2008). The Intelligible Universe: An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years. View quote
Augustin Louis Cauchy
Men pass away, but their deeds abide. [His last words.]. View quote
Augustin Louis Cauchy
As for methods I have sought to give them all the rigour that one requires in geometry, so as never to have recourse to the reasons drawn from the generality of algebra. View quote
Augustin Louis Cauchy