A Quote by Vladimir Prelog

A planar geometrical figure with more than three vertices can be decomposed into a set of triangles, and it can be reconstructed from a set of triangles.

Vladimir Prelog

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Figure More Set Than Three Triangles

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Vladimir Prelog
Croatian - Scientist
July 23, 1906 - January 7, 1998

I actually like love triangles in books. That's one of the main reasons why I wrote one. I really love love triangles.

Sabaa Tahir

The laws of Nature are written in the language of mathematics...the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word.

Galileo Galilei

If triangles had a god, he would have three sides.

Baron de Montesquieu

A considreable portion of my high school trigonometry course was devoted to the solution of oblique triangles... I have still not had an excuse for using my talents for solving oblique triangles. If a professional mathematician never uses these dull techniques in a highly varied career, why must all high school students devote several weeks to the subject?

John G. Kemeny

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu

If triangles had a god, they would give him three sides.

Montesquieu

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

Baron de Montesquieu

You could probably prove, by judicious use of logarithms and congruent triangles, that real life is a lot more like soap opera than most people will admit.

Molly Ivins

The stars are the apexes of what triangles!

Henry David Thoreau

Most of these love triangles are wrecktangles.

Jacob Braude

I think I attract love triangles!

Ananya Panday

I got a random tattoo the other day. It's a red triangle, which makes everyone think I'm arty, which I'm not. I used to draw red triangles all the time. It must mean something - maybe I don't know it yet. But I'll figure it out.

Ellie Goulding

I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.

Rachel Bilson

Philosophy [nature] is written in that great book which ever is before our eyes -- I mean the universe -- but we cannot understand it if we do not first learn the language and grasp the symbols in which it is written. The book is written in mathematical language, and the symbols are triangles, circles and other geometrical figures, without whose help it is impossible to comprehend a single word of it; without which one wanders in vain through a dark labyrinth.

Galileo Galilei

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.