When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people. - Andre Weil
First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
- Andre Weil
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. - Andre Weil
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously .… - Andre Weil
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously .…
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not… - Andre Weil
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not…
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself,… - Andre Weil
In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself,…
When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, … - Andre Weil
When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, …
What is crucial is there be laws. - Andre Weil
What is crucial is there be laws.
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it. - Andre Weil
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
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