Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Quote

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.


Vorlesungen über analytische Mechanik [Lectures on Analytical Mechanics] (1847/48; edited by Helmut Pulte in 1996).


Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional...

Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional...

Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional...

Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional...