Carl B. Boyer Quote

But what, after all, are the integers? Everyone thinks that he or she knows, for example, what the number three is — until he or she tries to define or explain it.

Quoted in: David Foster Wallace (2013), Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity. p. 8

But what, after all, are the integers? Everyone thinks that he or she knows, for example, what the number three is — until he or she tries to...

But what, after all, are the integers? Everyone thinks that he or she knows, for example, what the number three is — until he or she tries to...

But what, after all, are the integers? Everyone thinks that he or she knows, for example, what the number three is — until he or she tries to...

But what, after all, are the integers? Everyone thinks that he or she knows, for example, what the number three is — until he or she tries to...