who said: "there is no branch of mathematics however abstract which may not somebody be applied to the phenomena of the real world"
2007-09-03 19:37:51 · 3 answers · asked by pen_bitten 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
Nicolai Lobachevsky
2007-09-03 19:56:06 · answer #1 · answered by radne0 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not someday be applied to the phenomena of the real world."-- Nicolai Lobachevsky
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2007-09-08 02:37:47 · answer #2 · answered by Merlyn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky (1792 - 1856), sometimes called Nicholas Lobachevsky. Lobachevsky lived in the 19th century, but the above quotation was credited to him in a 1988 publication, "Mathematical Maxims and Minims."
2007-09-07 15:32:46 · answer #3 · answered by DavidK93 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋