E. W. Hobson Quote

Probably no other department of knowledge plays a larger part outside its own narrower domain than mathematics. Some of its more elementary conceptions and methods have become part of the common heritage of our civilization, interwoven in the every-day life of the people.


Address to the Mathematical and Physical Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, N.S. Volume 32, September 23, 1910 (p. 386)


Probably no other department of knowledge plays a larger part outside its own narrower domain than mathematics. Some of its more elementary...

Probably no other department of knowledge plays a larger part outside its own narrower domain than mathematics. Some of its more elementary...

Probably no other department of knowledge plays a larger part outside its own narrower domain than mathematics. Some of its more elementary...

Probably no other department of knowledge plays a larger part outside its own narrower domain than mathematics. Some of its more elementary...