Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The full impact of the Lobachevskian method of challenging axioms has probably yet to be felt. It is no exaggeration to call Lobachevsky the… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Wherever groups disclosed themselves, or could be introduced, simplicity crystallized out of comparative chaos. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Even stranger things have happened; and perhaps the strangest of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
[As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Poincaré [was] the last man to take practically all mathematics, pure and applied, as his province. ... Few mathematicians have had the breadth of… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number. — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Any impatient student of mathematics or science or engineering who is irked by having algebraic symbolism thrust upon him should try to get along… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, these three, are in a class by themselves among the great mathematicians, and it is not for ordinary mortals to… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Had Poincaré been as strong in practical science as he was in theoretical he might have made a fourth with the incomparable three, Archimedes,… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for… — Eric Temple Bell Copy Share Image
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