Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi quotes
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“The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.”
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“Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.”
-- Carl Gustav Jacob JacobiSource : "Vorlesungen über analytische Mechanik" edited by Helmut Pulte, 1996.
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“Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.”
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“The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal.”
-- Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
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