Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

The importance of the "New Mathematics" lies mainly in the fact that it has taught us the difference between the disc and the circle.

Quantum mechanics, with its leap into statistics, has been a mere palliative for our ignorance

Topology is precisely the mathematical discipline that allows the passage from local to global.

If one must choose between rigour and meaning, I shall unhesitatingly choose the latter.

I believe that proving is not a natural activity for mathematicians.

At a time when so many scholars in the world are calculating, is it not desirable that some, who can, dream ?