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From Quotes by Eric Temple Bell
- If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it…
- Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of…
- It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.
- [As a young teenager] Galois read [Legendre's] geometry from cover to cover as easily as other boys read a pirate yarn.
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