is addressed to a student who continues talking after the lecture has commenced: ...
Graduatus sum! nego
applies to one who declined to subscribe for an M. A. degree.—De Morgan, Augustus.
Budget of Paradoxes (London, 1872), p. 82.
[948]. Descartes is the completest type which history presents of the purely mathematical type of mind—that in which the tendencies produced by mathematical cultivation reign unbalanced and supreme.—Mill, J. S.
An Examination of Sir W. Hamilton’s Philosophy (London, 1878), p. 626.
[949]. To Descartes, the great philosopher of the 17th century, is due the undying credit of having removed the bann which until then rested upon geometry. The analytical geometry, as Descartes’ method was called, soon led to an abundance of new theorems and principles, which far transcended everything that ever could have been reached upon the path pursued by the ancients.—Hankel, H.
Die Entwickelung der Mathematik in den letzten Jahrhunderten (Tübingen, 1884), p. 10.
[950]. [The application of algebra has] far more than any of his metaphysical speculations, immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.—Mill, J. S.
An Examination of Sir W. Hamilton’s Philosophy (London, 1878), p. 617.