Ifs Quote by Iamblichus

The Triad has a special beauty and fairness beyond all numbers, primarily because it is the very first to make actual the potentiality of…

— Iamblichus

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ...…

— Barry Mazur

The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than…

— Georg Cantor

“Numbers have no hidden meanings, you say. But it is the hidden meanings in words that make them so wonderful.”

— Simon Mawer

... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into…

— Hermann Weyl

There is no doubt that we cannot do without variable quantities in the sense of the potential infinite. But from this very fact the…

— Georg Cantor

Whenever a man can get hold of numbers, they are invaluable: if correct, they assist in informing his own mind, but they are still…

— Charles Babbage

For mathematics, even to the logical forms in which it moves, is entirely dependent on the concept of natural number.

— Hermann Weyl

“Where numbers only represent real things, you don’t need a number to express the absence of something. It is an abstract concept and only…

— Chris Anderson

Number is the within of all things.

— Pythagoras

“But beyond these joys, the look and action of numbers, is what they represent. [...] Numbers are an invention of the human mind, and…

— P. Carey Reid

I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is…

— Richard Hamming