Hermann Hankel Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.”
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“Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.”
-- Hermann Hankel -
“In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.”
-- Hermann Hankel
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