When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies,… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it… — Andre Weil Copy Share Image
