



"Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!"- Jean Dieudonné

"The first test of potential in mathematics is whether you can get anything out of geometry." Quoted in D MacHale, Comic Sections(Dublin 1993)

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." - Einstein