Quote#Science & Reason
Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by…
Quote byIsaac Barrow · 1630–1677
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Mathematical Lectures (1734), p. 44.
English (original)
Now as to what pertains to these Surd numbers (which, as it were by way of reproach and calumny, having no merit of their own are also styled Irrational, Irregular, and Inexplicable) they are by many denied to be numbers properly speaking, and are wont to be banished from arithmetic to another Science, (which yet is no science) viz. algebra.
— Isaac Barrow
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