George Frederick James Temple - Analysis Quotes

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Logical analysis is indispensable for an examination of the strength of a mathematical structure, but it is useless for its conception and design. The great advances in mathematics have not been made by logic but by creative imagination.

George Frederick James Temple

Ninety per cent of all the mathematics we know has been discovered (or invented), in the last hundred years... the advances made in each of some dozen directions are converging into one single discipline uniting algebra, topology and analysis.

George Frederick James Temple

What would geometry be without Gauss, mathematical logic without Boole, algebra without Hamilton, analysis without Cauchy?

George Frederick James Temple