David Berlinski Quote

It is a fact. At some time or other the mathematicians of Europe looked out over the universe, noted its appalling clutter, and determined that on some level there must exist a simple representation of the world.


A Tour of the Calculus, Chapter 2 (p. 9), Pantheon Books. 1995


It is a fact. At some time or other the mathematicians of Europe looked out over the universe, noted its appalling clutter, and determined that on...

It is a fact. At some time or other the mathematicians of Europe looked out over the universe, noted its appalling clutter, and determined that on...

It is a fact. At some time or other the mathematicians of Europe looked out over the universe, noted its appalling clutter, and determined that on...

It is a fact. At some time or other the mathematicians of Europe looked out over the universe, noted its appalling clutter, and determined that on...