In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure..

Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to t….

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations….

[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the number….