Rózsa Péter

Topics: mathematics

• You cannot read mathematics superficially; the inescapable abstraction always has an element of self-torture in it, and the one to whom this self-torture is joy is the mathematician.

  — Rózsa Péter

• Our epoch is the epoch of increasing consciousness; in this field Mathematics has done its bit. It has made us conscious of the limits of its own capabilities.

  — Rózsa Péter