Analysis Quote by Leopold Kronecker

The human brain finds it extremely hard to cope with a new level of abstraction. This is why it was well into the eighteenth…

— Keith Devlin

There are certainly people who regard √2 as something perfectly obvious but jib at √-1. This is because they think they can visualise the…

— Edward Charles Titchmarsh

...the science of calculation also is indispensable as far as the extraction of the square and cube roots: Algebra as far as the quadratic…

— Thomas Jefferson

That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity, is to…

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the…

— Aldous Huxley

“This is all so silly,' said Diko. 'Who cares about what's real and what isn't real? [...] And as for our own history, the…

— Orson Scott Card

The confusion, the difficulties, the contradictions which, in consequence of a want of accurate distinctions in this particular, have up to even a recent…

— Ada Lovelace

I protest against the use of infinite magnitude ..., which is never permissible in mathematics.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

Square root of a cosine? How is that ever going to be useful?

— Aprilynne Pike

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed…

— Arthur Koestler

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

— Henry John Stephen Smith

“If the theory of numbers could be employed for any practical and obviously honourable purpose, if it could be turned directly to the furtherance…

— G.H. Hardy