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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

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

“Mathematics is the study of anything that obeys the rules of logic, using the rules of logic.”

— Eugenia Cheng

“It is by logic that we prove. It is by intuition that we discover," said the mathematician Henri Poincare.l”

— Ellen J. Langer

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

— Stephen Cole Kleene

Gel'fand amazed me by talking of mathematics as though it were poetry. He once said about a long paper bristling with formulas that it…

— Dusa McDuff

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

— Hermann Weyl

“Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him [her husband, George Boole]; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a…

— Mary Everest Boole

Mathematics had never had more than a secondary interest for him ; and even logic he cared for chiefly as a means of clearing…

— Mary Everest Boole

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

What seems certain is that Pythagoras developed the idea of mathematical logic. He realized that numbers exist independently of the tangible world and therefore…

— Simon Singh

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

— Morris Kline