The algebraic numbers are spotted over the plane like stars against a black sky; the dense blackness is the firmament of the transcendentals.


Men of Mathematics (p. 569), Simon & Schuster. 1937

Eric Temple Bell Quotes

The algebraic numbers are spotted over the plane like stars against a black sky; the dense blackness is the firmament of the transcendentals.

The algebraic numbers are spotted over the plane like stars against a black sky; the dense blackness is the firmament of the transcendentals.

The algebraic numbers are spotted over the plane like stars against a black sky; the dense blackness is the firmament of the transcendentals.

The algebraic numbers are spotted over the plane like stars against a black sky; the dense blackness is the firmament of the transcendentals.