Raleigh, [Sir] Walter Alexander (1861-1922)
In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
Some Thoughts on Examinations.
Recorde, Robert (1557)
To avoide the
tediouse repetition
of these woordes: is
equalle to: I will
settle as I doe
often in woorke use,
a paire of
paralleles, or
gemowe [twin] lines
of one lengthe: =,
bicause noe .2.
thynges, can be
moare equalle.
In G. Simmons,
Calculus Gems, New
York: McGraw Hill
Inc., 1992.
Reid, Thomas
It is the invaluable
merit of the great
Basel mathematician
Leonard Euler, to
have freed the
analytical calculus
from all geometric
bounds, and thus to
have established
analysis as an
independent science,
which from his time
on has maintained an
unchallenged
leadership in the
field of
mathematics.
In N. Rose,
Mathematical Maxims
and Minims, Raleigh
NC: Rome Press Inc.,
1988.
Renan, Ernest
The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with facts for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse.
Renyi, Alfred
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
P. Turan, "The Work of Alfred Renyi", Matematikai Lapok 21, 1970, pp 199 - 210.
Richardson, Lewis Fry (1881 - 1953)
Another advantage of a mathematical statement is that it is so definite that it might be definitely wrong; and if it is found to be wrong, there is a plenteous choice of amendments ready in the mathematicians' stock of formulae. Some verbal statements have not this merit; they are so vague that they could hardly be wrong, and are correspondingly useless.
Mathematics of War and Foreign Politics.
Riskin, Adrian
(after Edna St. Vincent Millay)
...Euclid alone
Has looked on Beauty bare.
He turned away at once;
Far too polite to stare.
The Mathematical Intelligencer, V. 16, no. 4 (Fall 1994), p. 20.
R. Rivest, A. Shamir
The magic words are
squeamish
ossifrage.
[This sentence is
the result when a
coded message in
Martin Gardner's
column about
factoring the famous
number RSA-129 is
decoded.]
See the article
whose title is the
above quotation by
Barry Cipra, SIAM
News, July 1994, 1,
12-13.
Rohault, Jacques (17th century)
It was by just such a hazard, as if a man should let fall a handful of sand upon a table and the particles of it should be so ranged that we could read distinctly on it a whole page of Virgil's Aenead.
Traite de Physique, Paris, 1671.
Rosenblueth, A
[with Norbert Wiener]
The best material model of a cat is another, or preferably the same, cat.
Philosophy of Science 1945.