Of course’ it is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
Ian Stewart (1938-1985)
The craft of the mathematical tools are a pen and paper: as a result, no mathematician takes them with him, and should always borrow a pen and write on a […]
Eugène Ionesco (1909-1994)
Mathematics is mortal enemy of memory – excellent in other fields – but nefarious arithmetically speaking.
Pope Benedict XVI (1927-)
But if nature is really structured with a mathematical language and mathematics invented by man can come to understand it, this means that something extraordinary occurred: the objective structure of […]