Avoiding Quote by George Polya

“Objects in mathematics are named after the first person after Euler to discover them.”

— Oft-Repeated Quip

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

— George Oppen

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical.

— David Hilbert

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

— Arthur Cayley

There wasn't much technical terminology, and then, most academics are not trained in writing. And there is what is probably worse than ever before,…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean way appears…

— George Polya

Mathematics is an experimental science, and definitions do not come first, but later on.

— Oliver Heaviside

Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next…

— Abraham Robinson

The increasing technicality of the terminology employed is also a serious difficulty. It has become necessary to learn an extensive vocabulary before a book…

— Thomas George Bonney

It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences.

— Anonymous

Mathematics seems to endow one with something like a new sense.

— Charles Darwin

A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly…

— John Von Neumann