No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation. . . Hilbert was singularly free from national … - Hermann Weyl

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It's the stuff that happens right in front of your face when there's no routine and everything is unexpected. That's what I want to write about.

Hermann Weyl

No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation. . . Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public questions, be they political, social or spiritual, he stood forever on the side of freedom.

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Besides language and music, it [mathematics] is one of the primary manifestations of the free creative power of the human mind, and it is the universal organ for world understanding through theoretical construction. Mathematics must therefore remain an essential element of the knowledge and abilities which we have to teach, of the culture we have to transmit, to the next generation.

Creative, Manifestations, Math, Power, Teaching, Universal

Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

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The introduction of numbers as coordinates is an act of violence.

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Mathematics is not the rigid and rigidity-producing schema that the layman thinks it is; rather, in it we find ourselves at that meeting point of constraint and freedom that is the very essence of human nature.

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God exists because arithmetic is consistent - the Devil exists because we can't prove it!

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