History Of Mathematics

🇬🇧Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Mathematics

1941–2014

"The teaching of axioms should come after conveying the theory in a looser version."

🇫🇷Jean Dieudonné

Mathematics

1906–1992

"A mathematician, then, will be defined in what follows as someone who has published the proof of at least one non-trivial theorem."

🇫🇷Pierre Boutroux

Mathematics

1880–1922

"Ingels: Logic is invincible because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic."

🇨🇭Florian Cajori

Mathematics

1859–1930

"On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century"

🇺🇸Carl Benjamin Boyer

Mathematics

1906–1976

"But what, after all, are the integers? Everyone thinks that he or she knows, for example, what the number three is — until he or she tries to define or explain it."

"Aristotle had considered the question of whether space is infinite and gave six nonmathematical arguments to prove that it is finite; he foresaw that this question would be troublesome."