Mathematics was born and nurtured in a cultural environment. Without the perspective which the cultural background affords, a proper appreciation of …

- Raymond Louis Wilder

There is nothing mysterious, as some have tried to maintain, about the applicability of mathematics. What we get by abstraction from something can be…

- Raymond Louis Wilder

Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subj…

- Raymond Louis Wilder