Loci: Convergence
Mathematical Quotations
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Valery, Paul (1871 - 1945)
In the physical world, one cannot increase the size or quantity of anything without changing its quality. Similar figures exist only in pure geometry.
van Vleck, E. B.
This new integral of
Lebesgue is proving
itself a wonderful
tool. I might
compare it with a
modern Krupp gun, so
easily does it
penetrate barriers
which were
impregnable.
Veblen, Thorstein (1857-1929)
The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before.
Veblen, Thorstein (1857-1929)
Invention is the mother of necessity.
Voltaire (1694-1778)
Vous avez trouve par
de long ennuis
Ce que Newton
trouva sans sortir
de chez
lui.
(You have
found with much
trouble
What
Newton found without
leaving his
home.)
[Written
to La Condamine
after his
measurement of the
equator.]
Voltaire (1694-1778)
He who has heard the
same thing told by
12,000 eye-witnesses
has only 12,000
probabilities, which
are equal to one
strong probability,
which is far from
certain.
Voltaire (1694-1778)
There are no sects
in geometry.
von Neumann, John (1903 - 1957)
In mathematics you
don't understand
things. You just get
used to them.
John von Neumann
The calculus was the
first achievement of
modern mathematics,
and it is difficult
to overestimate its
importance. I think
it defines more
unequivocally than
anything else the
inception of modern
mathematics; and the
system of
mathematical
analysis, which is
its logical
development, still
constitutes the
greatest technical
advance in exact
thinking.
John von Neumann
Truth is much too
complicated to allow
anything but
approximations.
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