Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
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
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 .…
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,…
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…
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men. - Andre Weil
What is crucial is there be laws. - Andre Weil
What is crucial is there be laws.
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, …
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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