Natural philosophy is written
in this grand book the universe, which stands continually open to our
gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend
the language and to read the alphabet in which it is composed. It is written
in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles,
and other geometric figures, without which it is humanly impossible to
understand a single word of it; without these, one wanders about in a
dark labyrinth. |
-Galileo Galilei, the father
of experimental science |
Coursenotes for V791: Quantitative Methods for Vision Research
(third edition)