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- The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology of the amorphous.…
- Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own…
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- ...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of… — James Jeans
- It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas… — Richard Courant
- Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects. — Henri Poincare
- For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them… — Henri Poincare
- The existence of these patterns [fractals] challenges us to study forms that Euclid leaves aside as being formless, to investigate the morphology… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- Many errors, of a truth, consist merely in the application of the wrong names of things. For if a man says that… — Baruch Spinoza
- Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent',… — G. H. Hardy
- In his wretched life of less than twenty-seven years Abel accomplished so much of the highest order that one of the leading… — Eric Temple Bell