Mathematics is mortal enemy of memory – excellent in other fields – but nefarious arithmetically speaking.
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 […]
Ennio De Giorgi (1928-1996)
At the beginning and at the end we have the mystery. We could say that we have the plan of God. In this mystery mathematics brings us closer, not penetrate […]
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 […]