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Type: Mathematician Quotes Category: German Mathematician Quotes Date of Birth: January 8, 1888 Date of Death: January 27, 1972 Nationality: German Find on Amazon: Richard Courant Related Authors: Carl Friedrich Gauss David Hilbert Max Born Georg Cantor Felix Klein Johann Heinrich Lambert Abraham Robinson |
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
Richard Courant Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Richard Courant |
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