Occupation: Mathematician Birth: November 3, 1896 Death: July 7, 1982
Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of ….
Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subj….
There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be….