Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

Mathematicians are like a certain type of Frenchman: when you talk to them they translate it into their own language, and then it soon turns into something completely different.


Maxims and Reflections (1998), trans. E. Stopp


Mathematicians are like a certain type of Frenchman: when you talk to them they translate it into their own language, and then it soon turns into...

Mathematicians are like a certain type of Frenchman: when you talk to them they translate it into their own language, and then it soon turns into...

Mathematicians are like a certain type of Frenchman: when you talk to them they translate it into their own language, and then it soon turns into...

Mathematicians are like a certain type of Frenchman: when you talk to them they translate it into their own language, and then it soon turns into...