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 More Quotes by Hermann Hankel More Quotes From Hermann Hankel [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
