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Tobias Dantzig: "Mereka [ahli matematika Pencerahan] mendefinisikan is...

"Mereka [ahli matematika Pencerahan] mendefinisikan istilah mereka secara samar dan menggunakan metode mereka secara longgar, dan logika argumen mereka dibuat agar sesuai dengan perintah intuisi mereka. Singkatnya, mereka melanggar semua hukum ketelitian dan kesopanan matematika. Pesta seks yang benar-benar mengikuti pengenalan infinitesimal ... hanyalah reaksi alami. Intuisi sudah terlalu lama dipenjara oleh kerasnya kekuatan Yunani. Sekarang pesawat itu lepas, dan tidak ada Euclid untuk mengendalikan penerbangan romantisnya."

--- Tobias Dantzig

Versi Bahasa Inggris

They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made to fit the dictates of their intuition. In short, they broke all the laws of rigor and of mathematical decorum. The veritable orgy which followed the introduction of the infinitesimals... was but a natural reaction. Intuition had too long been held imprisoned by the severe rigor of the Greeks. Now it broke loose, and there were no Euclids to keep its romantic flight in check.