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Quotes from On the Uses and Transformations of Linear Algebra — Benjamin Peirce

1809–1880 United States

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Symbols are essential to comprehensive argument.

On the Uses and Transformations of Linear Algebra (1875)

When the formulas admit of intelligible interpretation, they are accessions to knowledge; but independently of their interpretation they are invaluable as symbolical expressions of thought.

On the Uses and Transformations of Linear Algebra (1875)

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