O investigating, studied mathematics, and not built without foundations.
Ennio De Giorgi (1928-1996)
Mathematics is one of the most significant manifestations of the love of wisdom. As such it is characterized on the one hand by a great freedom, the other from the intuition that the world is made of things visible and invisible, and mathematics has perhaps an ability, unique among the other sciences, to pass from […]
Alfred W. Adler (1870-1937)
Every generation has a bunch of great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the other. They are useful as teachers, and their research they do not hurt anyone, but it does not have any importance. A mathematician is a great or not is none.