Occupation: Mathematician Birth: February 19, 1884 Death: August 9, 1956
The importance of infinite processes for the practical exigencies of technical life can hardly be overemphasized. Practically all applications of ari….
They [the mathematicians of the Enlightenment] defined their terms vaguely and used their methods loosely, and the logic of their arguments was made ….
The harmony of the universe knows only one musical form - the legato; while the symphony of number knows only its opposite - the staccato. All attemp….
Are not most professional mathematicians spared all trouble incident to income?.
And so matching by itself is incapable of creating an art of reckoning. Without our ability to arrange things in ordered succession little progress c….
The practical man demands an appearance of reality at least. Always dealing in the concrete, he regards mathematical terms not as symbols or thought ….
Mathematics is the supreme judge; from its decisions there is no appeal..