We know only too well... that one should not invariably assume a mathematician to be fully aware of the work of his predecessors, even when he includes it among his references; which one of us has read all the books he has listed in the bibliographies of his own writings?


In: Raymond George Ayoub, Musings of the Masters: An Anthology of Mathematical Reflections, History of Mathematics (p. 210)

André Weil Quotes

We know only too well... that one should not invariably assume a mathematician to be fully aware of the work of his predecessors, even when he...

We know only too well... that one should not invariably assume a mathematician to be fully aware of the work of his predecessors, even when he...

We know only too well... that one should not invariably assume a mathematician to be fully aware of the work of his predecessors, even when he...

We know only too well... that one should not invariably assume a mathematician to be fully aware of the work of his predecessors, even when he...