Topologist
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🇺🇸William Thurston
Mathematics
1946–2012
"Mathematics is primarily a tool for human thought."
4 quotes
🇺🇸Maryam Mirzakhani
Mathematics
1977–2017
"It's not only the question, but the way you try to solve it."
3 quotes
🇫🇷Henri Poincaré
Mathematics
1854–1912
"Poincare Contemplates Copernicus" at MathPages'"
14 quotes
🇬🇧Michael Atiyah
Mathematics
1929–2019
"My own supervisor, William Hodge, the creator of the fertile theory of harmonic forms, was not a genius like Ramanujan but resembled Lefschetz."
3 quotes
🇺🇸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."
5 quotes
🇷🇺Vladimir Arnold
Mathematics
1937–2010
"In almost all textbooks, even the best, this principle is presented so that it is impossible to understand." . I have not chosen to break with tradition."
10 quotes
🇺🇸Oswald Veblen
Mathematics
1880–1960
"Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry."
1 quotes