"The mathematician’s main reason for existence is to solve problems"
— Paul Halmos - 1980
"… mathematics: she gives life to our discoveries; she awakens the mind and purifies the intellect; she brings the light to our intrinsic ideas; she abolishes the oblivian an ignorance which are our by birth."
— Proclus
We use math
"[Mathematics is] “a language that can neither be read nor
understood without initiation."
understood without initiation."
— Emblems of Mind, Edward Rothstein, Harper Perennial, 1996, page 15
Do not date a Mathematician.
"The most practical solution is a good theory."
— Albert Einstein
"I see it, but I don’t believe it."
— Cantor to Dedekind 29 June 1877
