Gian-Carlo Rota Quote

Group theory, like lattice theory, is the whipping boy of mathematicians in need of concealing their feelings of insecurity.


Indiscrete Thoughts, Chapter XX (p. 221), Birkhäuser. 1997


Group theory, like lattice theory, is the whipping boy of mathematicians in need of concealing their feelings of insecurity.

Group theory, like lattice theory, is the whipping boy of mathematicians in need of concealing their feelings of insecurity.

Group theory, like lattice theory, is the whipping boy of mathematicians in need of concealing their feelings of insecurity.

Group theory, like lattice theory, is the whipping boy of mathematicians in need of concealing their feelings of insecurity.