A modern mathematical proof is not very different from a modern machine, or a modern test setup the simple fundamental principles are hidden and almost invisible under a mass of technical details.
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Our federal income tax law defines the tax y to be paid in terms of the income x it does so in a clumsy enough way by pasting several linear functions together, each valid in another interval or bracket of income. An archeologist who, five thousand years from now, shall unearth some of our income tax returns together with relics of engineering works and mathematical books, will probably date them a couple of centuries earlier, certainly before Galileo and Vieta.Hermann Weyl
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.
Hermann Weyl
... numbers have neither substance, nor meaning, nor qualities. They are nothing but marks, and all that is in them we have put into them by the simple rule of straight succession.
Hermann Weyl
You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
Hermann Weyl
Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements of mathematics in the last 50 years. Said in 1950
Hermann Weyl
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