Serge Lang

"Mathematics is not a deductive science — that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just l…"

"If explaining minds seems harder than explaining songs, we should remember that sometimes enlarging problem…"

"What would geometry be without Gauss, mathematical logic without Boole, algebra without Hamilton, analysis …"

"There are two suffixes in our language which suggest organized knowledge. One is the venerable, academic "o…"

"The equations at which we arrive must be such that a person of any nation, by substituting the numerical va…"

"Since space is continuous, it follows that there must be an immediate community of feeling between parts of…"