Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Quotes

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Any progress in the theory of partial differential equations must also bring about a progress in Mechanics.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
History knew a midnight, which we may estimate at about the year 1000 A.D., when the human race lost the arts and sciences even to the memory. The last twilight of paganism was gone, and yet the new day had not begun. Whatever was left of culture in the world was found only in the Saracens, and a Pope eager to learn studied in disguise in their universities, and so became the wonder of the West.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Mathematics is slow of growth and only reaches the truth by long and devious paths, that the way to its discovery must be prepared for long beforehand, and that then the truth will make its long-deferred appearance as if impelled by some divine necessity.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
It must not be supposed... that it is to a gift of Nature that I owe such mathematical power as I possess. No, it has come by hard work, hard work. Not mere industry, but brain-splitting thinking — hard work; hard work that has often endangered my health.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi