Fixed Arithmetic Hebrew

Famous quotes containing the words fixed, arithmetic and/or hebrew:

“If they be two, they are two so
As stiff twin compasses are two;
Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show
To move, but doth if th’ other do.”
—John Donne (1572–1631)

“Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.... It is all the more serious since, with the loss of my rule V, not only the foundations of my arithmetic, but also the sole possible foundations of arithmetic seem to vanish.”
—Gottlob Frege (1848–1925)

“Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled:t hou takest away their
breath, they die, and return to their dust.”
—Bible: Hebrew Psalm CIV (l. CIV, 29)