Modern Mathematics Quotes
- The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is… — George Polya
- Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual creations, has projected the mind's eye through infinite time and the mind's hand into boundless space. — Nicholas Murray Butler
- Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained. — Arthur Cayley
- The calculus was the first achievement of modern mathematics and it is difficult to overestimate its importance. I think it defines more unequivocally than anything… — John von Neumann
- To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable… — Ivars Peterson
- It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations. — Felix Klein
- How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is. — Bertrand Russell
- To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of indecipherable… — Ivars Peterson