Mathematics Is The Queen Of The Sciences.

There Have Been Only Three Epoch-making Mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, And Eisenstein.

To The Distracting Occupations Belong Especially My Lecture Courses Which I Am Holding This Winter For The First Time, And Which Now Cost Much More Of My Time Than I Like. Meanwhile I Hope That The Second Time This Expenditure Of Time Will Be Much Less, Otherwise I Would Never Be Able To Reconcile Myself To It, Even Practical (astronomical) Work Must Give Far More Satisfaction Than If One Brings Up To B A Couple More Mediocre Heads Which Otherwise Would Have Stopped At A.

As Is Well Known The Principle Of Virtual Velocities Transforms All Statics Into A Mathematical Assignment, And By D'alembert's Principle For Dynamics, The Latter Is Again Reduced To Statics. Although It Is Is Very Much In Order That In Gradual Training Of Science And In The Instruction Of The Individual The Easier Precedes The More Difficult, The Simple Precedes The More Complicated, The Special Precedes The General, Yet The Min, Once It Has Arrived At The Higher Standpoint, Demands The Reverse Process Whereby All Statics Appears Only As A Very Special Case Of Mechanics.

Ask Her To Wait A Moment - I Am Almost Done.

For Three Days Now This Angel, Almost Too Heavenly For Earth Has Been My Fiancée ... Life Stands Before Me Like An Eternal Spring With New And Brilliant Colours. Upon His Engagement To Johanne Osthof Of Brunswick; They Married 9 Oct 1805.