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Henry Parker Manning
(3 Oct 1859 - 11 Jan 1956)
American mathematician who spent his career as a professor of mathematics at Brown University. Near his retirement, he learned early Egyptian hieroglyphics and studied the Rhind mathematical papyrus with Arnold Buffum Chace.
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Science Quotes by Henry Parker Manning (1 quote)
The greatest advantage to be derived from the study of geometry of more than three dimensions is a real understanding of the great science of geometry. Our plane and solid geometries are but the beginning of this science. The four-dimensional geometry is far more extensive than the three-dimensional, and all the higher geometries are more extensive than the lower.
— Henry Parker Manning
Geometry of Four Dimensions (1914), 13.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
