Auguste Comte

1798–1857 · French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist

Topics: mathematics, learning

• Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

  — Auguste Comte

• To understand a science it is necessary to know its history.

  — Auguste Comte

• [F]inding direct measurement so often impossible, we are compelled to devise means of doing it indirectly. Hence arose Mathematics.

  — Auguste Comte