Philip J. Davis Quotes
- One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
- Most writers on the subject seem to agree that the typical working mathematician is a Platonist on weekdays and a formalist on Sundays.
- In the realm of ideas, of mental objects, those ideas whose properties are reproducible are called mathematical objects, and the study of mental objects with…
- The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans.
- The inner circle of pure mathematicians will respond to the book with delight.
- Blindness to the aesthetic element in mathematics is widespread and can account for a feeling that mathematics is dry as dust, as exciting as a…
- One began to hear it said that World War I was the chemists' war, World War II was the physicists' war, World War III (may…