George Frederick James Temple

"The subject matter of mathematics has increased so rapidly and extensively that there is some element of truth in maintaining that mathematics is not so much a subject as a way of studying any subject…"

"Mathematical activity has taken the forms of a science, a philosophy and an art."

"There is the definition , boldly proposed by Pierce that 'Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions', and more explicitly formulated by Russel that 'Pure Mathematics is the class of…"

"At each stage of in the advance of mathematical thought the outstanding characteristics are novelty and originality. That is why mathematics is such a delight to study, such a challenge to practise an…"

"Ninety per cent of all the mathematics we know has been discovered , in the last hundred years... the advances made in each of some dozen directions are converging into one single discipline uniting a…"

"The 'language theory' is inadequate as a description of the nature of mathematics."

"This book... is primarily and essentially an account of the discovery or invention of mathematical concepts, and the historical material is... divided and classified, neither chronologically nor biogr…"

"Mathematics has also been developed as a philosophy, in the sense in which this term is defined by A.N. Whitehead as 'the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical and necessary system of general ideas in…"