Cassius Jackson Keyser Quote

What is mathematics? I inquire, not about the word, but about the thing. Many have been the answers of former years, but none has approved itself as final. All of them, by nature belonging to the "literature of knowledge," have fallen under its law and "perished by supersession."


Mathematics (p. 9), The Columbia University Press. 1907


What is mathematics? I inquire, not about the word, but about the thing. Many have been the answers of former years, but none has approved itself as...

What is mathematics? I inquire, not about the word, but about the thing. Many have been the answers of former years, but none has approved itself as...

What is mathematics? I inquire, not about the word, but about the thing. Many have been the answers of former years, but none has approved itself as...

What is mathematics? I inquire, not about the word, but about the thing. Many have been the answers of former years, but none has approved itself as...