A Mathematician's Apology
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1992-01-31
- Retrieved
- Mar 26, 2013
- ISBN
- beImvXUGD-
2 memes from this reference
Mathematics is More Popular Than Music and Art
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean." [* * *] A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are…
Mathematics Lies Outside Ourselves
I believe that mathematical reality lies outside us, that our function is to discover or observe it, and that the theorems which we prove, and which we describe grandiloquently as our "creations," are simply the notes of our observations. * * * Let us suppose that I am giving a lecture on some system of geometry, such…