Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
— Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1928)
From ch. 15 of The Nature of the Physical World (1928).
Topics: mathematics
Proof is the idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself.
— Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World (1928)
From ch. 15 of The Nature of the Physical World (1928).
Topics: mathematics