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I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the…

Quote byGeorge Boole · 1815–1864

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A treatise on differential equations (1859), p. v; cited in: Quotations by George Boole, MacTutor History of Mathematics, August 2010..

English (original)

I presume that few who have paid any attention to the history of the Mathematical Analysis, will doubt that it has been developed in a certain order, or that that order has been, to a great extent, necessary -- being determined, either by steps of logical deduction, or by the successive introduction of new ideas and conceptions, when the time for their evolution had arrived.

— George Boole

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