Memorabilia Mathematica; or, the Philomath's Quotation-Book
Science
Memorabilia Mathematica; or, the Philomath's Quotation-Book
Mathematics; Mathematics -- Quotations, maxims, etc.
_Presidential Address British
Association for the Advancement of
Science, Section A, (1897); Nature, Vol.
56, p. 378._
=705.= The nineteenth century which prides itself upon the
invention of steam and evolution, might have derived a more
legitimate title to fame from the discovery of pure mathematics.
--RUSSELL, BERTRAND.
_International Monthly, Vol. 4 (1901),
p. 83._
=706.= One of the chiefest triumphs of modern mathematics
consists in having discovered what mathematics really is.
--RUSSELL, BERTRAND.
_International Monthly, Vol. 4 (1901),
p. 84._
=707.= Modern mathematics, that most astounding of intellectual
creations, has projected the mind’s eye through infinite time and
the mind’s hand into boundless space.--BUTLER, N. M.
_The Meaning of Education and other
Essays and Addresses (New York, 1905),
p. 44._
=708.= The extraordinary development of mathematics in the last
century is quite unparalleled in the long history of this most
ancient of sciences. Not only have those branches of mathematics
which were taken over from the eighteenth century steadily grown,
but entirely new ones have sprung up in almost bewildering
profusion, and many of them have promptly assumed proportions of
vast extent.--PIERPONT, J.
_The History of Mathematics in the
Nineteenth Century; Congress of Arts and
Sciences (Boston and New York, 1905),
Vol. 1, p. 474._
=709.= The Modern Theory of Functions--that stateliest of all the
pure creations of the human intellect.--KEYSER, C. J.
_Lectures on Science, Philosophy and Art
(New York, 1908), p. 16._
=710.= If a mathematician of the past, an Archimedes or even a
Descartes, could view the field of geometry in its present
condition, the first feature to impress him would be its lack of
concreteness. There are whole classes of geometric theories which
proceed not only without models and diagrams, but without the
slightest (apparent) use of spatial intuition. In the main
this is due, to the power of the analytic instruments of
investigations as compared with the purely geometric.
--KASNER, EDWARD.
_The Present Problems in Geometry;
Bulletin American Mathematical Society,
1905, p. 285._
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