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
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My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.Hermann Weyl
Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.
Hermann Weyl
The constructs of the mathematical mind are at the same time free and necessary. The individual mathematician feels free to define his notions and set up his axioms as he pleases. But the question is will he get his fellow mathematician interested in the constructs of his imagination. We cannot help the feeling that certain mathematical structures which have evolved through the combined efforts of the mathematical community bear the stamp of a necessity not affected by the accidents of their historical birth. Everybody who looks at the spectacle of modern algebra will be struck by this complementarity of freedom and necessity.
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You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality.
Hermann Weyl
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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