Complex Analytic Function

Famous quotes containing the words complex, analytic and/or function:

    “By “object” is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.”
    —John Dewey (1859–1952)

    ““You, that have not lived in thought but deed,
    Can have the purity of a natural force,
    But I, whose virtues are the definitions
    Of the analytic mind, can neither close
    The eye of the mind nor keep my tongue from speech.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)