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There is no let up! No end to it! Accursed problems! Innumerable calculations. Endless fighting. Signs. Formulas. Theorems besetting me from dawn to dusk!

— Augustin Louis Cauchy

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Quoted in Augustin-Louis Cauchy: A Biography (1991), Chapter 13.

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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 … .

As translated by Julio Antonio Gonzalo (2008). The Intelligible Universe: An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years. World Scientific. p. 301.

... very often the laws derived by physicists from a large number of observations are not rigorous, but approximate.

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