Jean Dieudonne quotes

“We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.”
-- Jean Dieudonne

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“On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism and say 'mathematics is just a combination of meaningless symbols,'... Finally we are left in peace to go back to our mathematics and do it as we have always done, with the feeling each mathematician has that he is working with something real. The sensation is probably an illusion, but it is very convenient.”
-- Jean Dieudonne

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“The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.”
-- Jean Dieudonne

Source : Underwood Dudley, Gerald L. Alexanderson, Nathan Altshiller-Court, John Aubry, Girolamo Cardano (2008). “Is mathematics inevitable?: a miscellany”, The Mathematical Association of America

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“Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!”
-- Jean Dieudonne

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“It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.”
-- Jean Dieudonne

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“Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.”
-- Jean Dieudonne

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“Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.”

“All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.”

“I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...”

“... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).”

“Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.”

“The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.”

Source : "Dictionary of Scientific Biography". Book edited by M. Steck, 1970-1990.

“If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.”

“There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.”

“The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.”

Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". The NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.