Quotations by Michael Stifel

Frustra laborant quotquot se calculationibus fatigant pro inventione quadraturae circuli.
Futile is the labor of those who fatigue themselves with calculations to square the circle

An irrational number ... lies hidden in a cloud of infinity.

JOC/EFR February 2006

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