Quote by Hermann Weyl Download Open image ““Two possibilities present themselves for the analytical treatment of metrical geometry.”” — Hermann Weyl ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out… — Jean Dieudonne Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can as yet… — Nikolai Lobachevsky Copy Share Image
The object of geometry in all its measuring and computing, is to ascertain with exactness the plan of the great Geometer, to penetrate the… — Benjamin Peirce Copy Share Image
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
“Geometry exist everywhere.It is necessary, however, to have eyes to see it, intelligence to understand it , and spirit to wonder at it.The wild… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God. That share in it accorded to men is one of the reasons that… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Mathematics has the inhuman quality of starlight, brilliant and sharp, but cold. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The introduction of numbers as coordinates by reference to the particular division scheme of the open one-dimensional continuum is an act of violence whose… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton,… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to the case… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
The whole is always more, is more capable of a much greater variety of wave states, than the combination of its parts. ... In… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality. — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as soon as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
“The goal of mathematics is the symbolic comprehension of the infinite with human, that is finite, means.” — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it! — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
