Leopold Kronecker quotes

Leopold Kronecker quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.”
-- Leopold Kronecker

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“The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.”
-- Leopold Kronecker

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“God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man”
-- Leopold Kronecker

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“Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.”
-- Leopold Kronecker

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“Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.”
-- Leopold Kronecker

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“All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.”
-- Leopold Kronecker

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“God made the integers, man made the rest.”
-- Leopold Kronecker

Source : Quoted in F Cajori A History of Mathematics (1919).

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“What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?”
-- Leopold Kronecker

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“God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.”
-- Leopold Kronecker

Source : "Philosophies of Mathematics" by Alexander George, Daniel J. Velleman, (p. 13), 2002.

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“Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.”
-- Leopold Kronecker

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