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.
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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
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.
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
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
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