Pure mathematics proves itself a royal science both through its content and form, which contains within itself the cause of its being and its methods of proof. For in complete independence mathematics creates for itself the object of which it treats, its magnitudes and laws, its formulas and symbols.


p. 94. - Die Mathematik die Fackelträgerin einer neuen Zeit (Stuttgart, 1889)

Christian Heinrich von Dillmann Quotes

Pure mathematics proves itself a royal science both through its content and form, which contains within itself the cause of its being and its methods ...

Pure mathematics proves itself a royal science both through its content and form, which contains within itself the cause of its being and its methods ...

Pure mathematics proves itself a royal science both through its content and form, which contains within itself the cause of its being and its methods ...

Pure mathematics proves itself a royal science both through its content and form, which contains within itself the cause of its being and its methods ...