Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quote

I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly say, "Oh, I see. That's how it must be." This is a sign that they explain it to themselves from within their own system.


Lichtenberg: a doctrine of scattered occasions: reconstructed from his aphorisms and reflections (ed. 1959)


I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they...

I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they...

I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they...

I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they...