Michael Atiyah

"It is... the author's confident hope that this book will give a fresh interest to the story of Greek mathem…"

"Each part of the mind sees only a little of what happens in some others, and that little is swiftly refined…"

"Since an algebraic function w is defined implicitly by an equation of the form f = 0, where f is a polynomi…"

"The whole of arithmetic now appeared within the grasp of mechanism."

"How did gauge theory appear and become successful in mathematics in the space of a few years? The fundament…"

"Wherever ideas come together they tend to weld into general ideas; and whenever they are generally connecte…"