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Julian Lowell Coolidge
(28 Sep 1873 - 5 Mar 1954)
American mathematician and educator.
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Science Quotes by Julian Lowell Coolidge (1)
But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are purely arbitrary. They must be consistent, they had better lead to something interesting.
— Julian Lowell Coolidge
In A History of Geometrical Methods (1940, reprint 2003), 423.
See also: | Arbitrary (2) | David Hilbert (9) | Influence (9) | Interesting (5) | Lead (8) | Postulate (7)
