Application Quote by Gian-Carlo Rota

Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over…

— David Mumford

The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves

— Julian Coolidge

Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole.…

— Julian Coolidge

I don't see how it's doing society any good to have so many members walking around with vague memories of algebraic formulas and geometric…

— Paul Lockhart

Thanks to my memory, which enabled me to quote Latin and to discuss Greek and Roman civilization, it became obvious to some of my…

— Stanislaw Ulam

“There is no way to understand the character of the taboo rules, except as a survival from some previous more elaborate cultural background. We…

— Alasdair C. MacIntyre

I think there is a natural thing that you feel when you've written something taboo because you just don't want to expose the people…

— Irvine Welsh

The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Partly what I'm writing about is the way taboos get toppled.

— George Packer

“It is well known that geometry presupposes not only the concept of space but also the first fundamental notions for constructions in space as…

— Bernhard Riemann

Harebrained schemes often lead to great discoveries.

— Barbara Corcoran

A geometry implies the heterogeneity of locus, namely that there is a locus of the Other. Regarding this locus of the Other, of one…

— Jacques Lacan