Occupation: Mathematician Birth: January 8, 1888 Death: January 27, 1972
Calculus is the outcome of a dramatic intellectual struggle which has lasted for twenty-five hundred years..
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic….
Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principl….
With an absurd oversimplification, the 'invention' of the calculus is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz. In reality, the calculus is ….
With an absurd oversimplification, the "invention" of calculus [method in mathematics] is sometimes ascribed to two men, Newton and Leibniz..
It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that m….
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematic….
Euler - The unsurpassed master of analytic invention..