Diagonal Quotes (2)
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
— Plato
Quoted by Sophie Germain: Mémorie sur les Surfaces Élastiques. In Robert Édouard Moritz, Memorabilia Mathematica (1914), 211
See also: | Fact (146) | Ignorant (2) | Man (115) | Name (19) | Side (2) | Square (3) | Unworthy (2)
The fundamental idea of these pylons, or great archways, is based on a method of construction peculiar to me, of which the principle consists in giving to the edges of the pyramid a curve of such a nature that this pyramid shall be capable of resisting the force of the wind without necessitating the junction of the edges by diagonals as is usually done.
[Writing of his tower after its completion in 1889.]
[Writing of his tower after its completion in 1889.]
Quoted in 'Eiffel's Monument His Famous Tower', New York Times (6 Jan 1924), X8.
See also: | Construction (5) | Curve (2) | Edge (3) | Force (26) | Fundamental (10) | Idea (87) | Principle (35) | Pyramid (2) | Resist (3) | Wind (12)
