Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.
The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness. - Rene Thom
The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness.
- Rene Thom
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I s… - Rene Thom
The purely formal language of geometry describes adequately the reality of space. We might say, in this sense, that geometry is successful magic. I s…
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ? - Rene Thom
At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance - Rene Thom
Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists o… - Rene Thom
Catastrophe Theory is-quite likely-the first coherent attempt (since Aristotelian logic) to give a theory on analogy. When narrow-minded scientists o…
Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global. - Rene Thom
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle. - Rene Thom
The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.
I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians. - Rene Thom
I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.
All models divide naturally...into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of the process under c… - Rene Thom
All models divide naturally...into two a priori parts: one is kinematics, whose aim is to parameterize the forms of the states of the process under c…
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