George Pólya Quote

Mathematics presented with rigor is a systematic deductive science but mathematics in the making is an experimental inductive science.


How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method, Part III, Induction and Mathematical Induction (p. 117), Princeton University Press. 1937


Mathematics presented with rigor is a systematic deductive science but mathematics in the making is an experimental inductive science.

Mathematics presented with rigor is a systematic deductive science but mathematics in the making is an experimental inductive science.

Mathematics presented with rigor is a systematic deductive science but mathematics in the making is an experimental inductive science.

Mathematics presented with rigor is a systematic deductive science but mathematics in the making is an experimental inductive science.