Of course’ it is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
Sergio Ricossa (1927-2016)
Mathematics, alas, lends itself to low blows. There is a “mathematical terrorism”, that is to scare the opponent by shooting against gusts of equations, derivatives, integrals, logarithms, matrices, theorems and […]
Hermann Broch (1886-1951)
Mathematics is a kind of desperate act of the human spirit … in and of itself it we must not, of course, but it’s kind of honesty island.