Theory Of Differential Equations

🇬🇧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."

🇷🇺Yuri I. Manin

Mathematics

1937–2023

"The twentieth century return to Middle Age scholastics taught us a lot about formalisms. Probably it is time to look outside again. Meaning is what really matters."

🇺🇸Solomon Lefschetz

Mathematics

1884–1972

"It was my lot to plant the harpoon of algebraic topology into the body of the whale of algebraic geometry."