Mathematics is mortal enemy of memory – excellent in other fields – but nefarious arithmetically speaking.
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 […]
Georg Cantor (1845-1918)
The essence of mathematics is its freedom.
Eugene Wigner (1902-1995)
The language of mathematics is effective unreasonably in the natural sciences […] a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve.