Purely Formal Quotes
- ... one of the main functions of an analogy or model is to suggest extensions of the theory by considering extensions of the analogy, since… — Mary Hesse
- Formality Thus the absence of all mention of particular things or properties in logic or pure mathematics is a necessary result of the fact that… — Bertrand Russell
- The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I should… — Rene Thom
- The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description… — Karl Pearson
- At a purely formal level, one could call probability theory the study of measure spaces with total measure one, but that would be like calling… — Terence Tao