Salomon Bochner quotes
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“The word "mathematics" is a Greek word and, by origin, it means "something that has been learned or understood," or perhaps "acquired knowledge," or perhaps even, somewhat against grammar, "acquirable knowledge," that is, "learnable knowledge," that is, "knowledge acquirable by learning."”
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“Mathematics is a form of poetry which transcends poetry in that it proclaims a truth; a form of reasoning which transcends reasoning in that it wants to bring about the truth it proclaims; a form of action, of ritual behavior, which does not find fulfilment in the act but must proclaim and elaborate a poetic form of truth.”
-- Salomon BochnerSource : Salomon Bochner “Collected Papers of Salomon Bochner”, American Mathematical Soc.
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“What Is Mathematics? This question, if asked in earnest, has no answer.”
-- Salomon BochnerSource : Salomon Bochner “Collected Papers of Salomon Bochner”, American Mathematical Soc.
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Source : Alan Furst (2010). “Spies of the Balkans: A Novel”, p.4, Random House
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Source : Anaxagoras, Patricia Curd (2007). “Anaxagoras of Clazomenae: Fragments and Testimonia : a Text and Translation with Notes and Essays”, p.72, University of Toronto Press
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