Differential Geometry
Quotes & Thinkers in Differential Geometry
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Bernhard Riemann
Mathematics
1826–1866
"Thesis. Finite, Representable. Antithesis. Infinite, System of Notions lying at the limit of the representable."
35 quotes
🇨🇭Beno Eckmann
Mathematics
1917–2008
"We probably all agree that eventually reducing a difficult problem to a "nice" situation is at the heart of mathematics."
3 quotes
🇺🇸Shiing-Shen Chern
Mathematics
1911–2004
6 quotes
🇩🇪Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Mathematics
1804–1851
"Any progress in the theory of partial differential equations must also bring about a progress in Mechanics."
4 quotes
🇷🇺Grigori Perelman
Mathematics
b. 1966
"If the proof is correct then no other recognition is needed."
1 quotes
Jan Arnoldus Schouten
Mathematics
1883–1971
3 quotes
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Science
1777–1855
"We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori."
48 quotes
🇫🇷Charles Dupin
Mathematics
1784–1873
7 quotes
🇺🇸Luther P. Eisenhart
Mathematics
1876–1965
"In 1869 Dini solved the problem of geodesic representation of two surfaces upon one another. In 1896 Levi-Civita extended the problem to spaces of any order."
3 quotes
🇺🇸John Nash (artist)
Art
1928–2015
"The artist's main business is to train his eye to see,then to probe and then to train his hand to work in sympathy with his eye. I have a habit of looking, and really seeing."
2 quotes