Hermann Hankel Professions : Mathematician Born : February 14, 1839 Died : August 29, 1873 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Hermann Hankel 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. Hermann Hankel tears math add [Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers, but things of thought to which there could correspond effective objects or relations, even though such a correspondence is not necessary. Hermann Hankel mathematics intellectual numbers In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure. Hermann Hankel generations math add 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 flower eye discovery Similar Authors Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch mathematician Brahmagupta mathematician Augustus De Morgan mathematician Augustin-Louis Cauchy mathematician Atle Selberg mathematician Arthur Cayley mathematician All Authors
