Mathematical Analysis

🇧🇷Isaac Newton

Mathematics

Enlightenment

1934–2014

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."

Bernhard Riemann

Mathematics

1826–1866

"Thesis. Finite, Representable. Antithesis. Infinite, System of Notions lying at the limit of the representable."

🇨🇭Jacob Bernoulli

Mathematics

1654–1705

"John J. O'Connor, Edmund F. Robertson, Jacob Bernoulli, MacTutor History of Mathematics archive, University of St Andrews."

🇭🇺Paul Halmos

Mathematics

1916–2006

"I read once that the true mark of a pro — at anything — is that he understands, loves, and is good at even the drudgery of his profession."

"The fact that the mean recurrence time is infinite implies that the chance fluctuations in an individual prolonged coin-tossing game are far removed from the familiar pattern governed by the normal distribution."

🇫🇷Joseph Fourier

Mathematics

1768–1830

"Profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discoveries."

"A Treatise on Isoperimetrical Problems, and the Calculus of Variations"

🇩🇪Gottfried Leibniz

Mathematics

rationalism

1646–1716

"G. W. Leibniz Texts and Translations, Donald Rutherford, U California, San Diego"

🇺🇸Richard Courant

Mathematics

1888–1972

"It becomes the urgent duty of mathematicians, therefore, to meditate about the essence of mathematics, its motivations and goals and the ideas that must bind divergent interests together."

🇺🇸George Pólya

Mathematics

1887–1985

"Good approximations often lead to better ones."

🇺🇸Josiah Willard Gibbs

Science

1839–1903

"A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane."

🇫🇷Augustin-Louis Cauchy

Mathematics

1789–1857

"As translated by Julio Antonio Gonzalo . The Intelligible Universe: An Overview of the Last Thirteen Billion Years. World Scientific. p. 301."

Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky

Mathematics

1792–1856

"There is no branch of mathematics, however abstract, which may not some day be applied to phenomena of the real world."

Leonhard Euler

Mathematics

1707–1783

"Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk."

🇫🇷Siméon Denis Poisson

Mathematics

1781–1840

"That which can affect our senses in any manner whatever, is termed matter."

🇬🇧John Edensor Littlewood

Mathematics

1885–1977

"I recall once saying that when I had given the same lecture several times I couldn't help feeling that they really ought to know it by now."