George David Birkhoff Quote

The primary service of modern mathematics is that it alone enables us to understand the vast abstract permanences which underlie the flux of things, without requiring us to regard its self-consistent abstractions as more than specific limited instruments of thought.


In: J.G. Crowther (ed.), Science Today


The primary service of modern mathematics is that it alone enables us to understand the vast abstract permanences which underlie the flux of things,...

The primary service of modern mathematics is that it alone enables us to understand the vast abstract permanences which underlie the flux of things,...

The primary service of modern mathematics is that it alone enables us to understand the vast abstract permanences which underlie the flux of things,...

The primary service of modern mathematics is that it alone enables us to understand the vast abstract permanences which underlie the flux of things,...