Occupation: Mathematician Birth: September 6, 1906 Death: August 5, 1986
Every new discovery in science brings with it a host of new problems, just as the invention of the automobile brought with it gas stations, roads, ga….
No longer was light analogous to the discharge of a blunderbuss, but rather to the pulsating flight of birds..
To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which dest….
But we must not underestimate the potency of the mathematical process of abstraction. A surprising variety of things happen to have both magnitude an….