We cannot convey mathematics to the great mass of people unless we first dwell upon the utility of the subject and imagine what would happen to the world if every trace of mathematics and of mathematical knowledge should cease to exist.


The Poetry of Mathematics and Other Essays, Chapter I (p. 10), Scripta Mathematica. 1934

David Eugene Smith Quotes

We cannot convey mathematics to the great mass of people unless we first dwell upon the utility of the subject and imagine what would happen to the...

We cannot convey mathematics to the great mass of people unless we first dwell upon the utility of the subject and imagine what would happen to the...

We cannot convey mathematics to the great mass of people unless we first dwell upon the utility of the subject and imagine what would happen to the...

We cannot convey mathematics to the great mass of people unless we first dwell upon the utility of the subject and imagine what would happen to the...