Mathematics may be legitimately pursued for its own sake or for the sake of its applications or with a view to understanding its logical foundations and internal structure or in the interest of magnanimity or for the sake of its bearings upon the supreme concerns of man as man or from two or more of these motives combined.


The Human Worth of Rigorous Thinking: Essays and Addresses, Chapter II (p. 30), Columbia University Press. 1916

Cassius Jackson Keyser Quotes

Mathematics may be legitimately pursued for its own sake or for the sake of its applications or with a view to understanding its logical foundations...

Mathematics may be legitimately pursued for its own sake or for the sake of its applications or with a view to understanding its logical foundations...

Mathematics may be legitimately pursued for its own sake or for the sake of its applications or with a view to understanding its logical foundations...

Mathematics may be legitimately pursued for its own sake or for the sake of its applications or with a view to understanding its logical foundations...