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Thoughts on Mathematics and History.
The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with
the prosperity of the State.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what
one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generation
adds a new story to the old structure.
Hermann Hankle
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
Bernard de Fontenelle
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve
other problems.
Rene Descartes
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and
accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the
result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.
Alfred North Whitehead
There is an astonishing imagination even in the science of mathematics ... We
repeat, there is far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of
Homer.
Voltaire
In Samoa, when elementary schools were first established, the natives
developed an absolute craze for arithmetical calculations. They laid aside their
weapons and were to be seen going about armed with slate and pencil, setting
sums and problems to one another and to European visitors. The Honourable
Frederick Walpole declares that his visit to the beautiful island was positively
embittered by ceaseless multiplication and division.
T. Briffault
The idea of the continuum seems simple to us. We have somehow lost sight of
the difficulties it implies ... We are told such a number as the square root of 2
worried Pythagoras and his school almost to exhaustion. Being used to such
queer numbers from early childhood, we must be careful not to form a low
idea of the mathematical intuition of these ancient sages; their worry was
highly credible.
Erwin Schrödinger
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable,
but it is impossible to forsee their consequences. These have only been found
out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is
due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler,
Gauss, or Tiemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs.
They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than
great literature, since it is independent of language.
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our
philosophers do not know mathematics.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
The advancement and perfection of mathematics are intimately connected with
the prosperity of the State.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what
one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generation
adds a new story to the old structure.
Hermann Hankle
An educated mind is, as it were, composed of all the minds of preceding ages.
Bernard de Fontenelle
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve
other problems.
Rene Descartes
There is no more common error than to assume that, because prolonged and
accurate mathematical calculations have been made, the application of the
result to some fact of nature is absolutely certain.
Alfred North Whitehead
There is an astonishing imagination even in the science of mathematics ... We
repeat, there is far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of
Homer.
Voltaire
In Samoa, when elementary schools were first established, the natives
developed an absolute craze for arithmetical calculations. They laid aside their
weapons and were to be seen going about armed with slate and pencil, setting
sums and problems to one another and to European visitors. The Honourable
Frederick Walpole declares that his visit to the beautiful island was positively
embittered by ceaseless multiplication and division.
T. Briffault
The idea of the continuum seems simple to us. We have somehow lost sight of
the difficulties it implies ... We are told such a number as the square root of 2
worried Pythagoras and his school almost to exhaustion. Being used to such
queer numbers from early childhood, we must be careful not to form a low
idea of the mathematical intuition of these ancient sages; their worry was
highly credible.
Erwin Schrödinger
Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.
The rules which we make up at the beginning seem ordinary and inevitable,
but it is impossible to forsee their consequences. These have only been found
out by long study, extending over many centuries. Much of our knowledge is
due to a comparatively few great mathematicians such as Newton, Euler,
Gauss, or Tiemann; few careers can have been more satisfying than theirs.
They have contributed something to human thought even more lasting than
great literature, since it is independent of language.
Edward Charles Titchmarsh
Today, it is not only that our kings do not know mathematics, but our
philosophers do not know mathematics.
Julius Robert Oppenheimer
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