Decades Quote by Hermann Weyl

The development of mathematics towards greater precision has led, as is well known, to the formalization of large tracts of it, so that one…

— Kurt Gödel

To most outsiders, modern mathematics is unknown territory. Its borders are protected by dense thickets of technical terms; its landscapes are a mass of…

— Ivars Peterson

Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance.

— Hermann Weyl

There is coming an era for people with a mathematical state of mind

— Yuri Milner

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

— David Hilbert

The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it…

— George Polya

One of the chief triumphs of modern mathematics consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.

— Bertrand Russell

Before one can generalize, formalize, and axiomatize, there must be a mathematical substance.

— Hermann Weyl

Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed.

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

“Mathematics is much more than a language for dealing with the physical world. It is a source of models and abstractions which will enable…

— Melvin Schwartz

In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies,…

— Andre Weil

“Formal mathematics is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your mathematics is.”

— Leslie Lamport