Henri Poincaré Quote

In a word, the sentiment of mathematical elegance is naught else than the satisfaction due to some, I know not just what, adaptation between the solution just found and the needs of our mind, and it is because of this adaptation itself that the solution becomes an instrument to us.


Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, - 1909, The Future of Mathematics (pp. 126-127)


In a word, the sentiment of mathematical elegance is naught else than the satisfaction due to some, I know not just what, adaptation between the...

In a word, the sentiment of mathematical elegance is naught else than the satisfaction due to some, I know not just what, adaptation between the...

In a word, the sentiment of mathematical elegance is naught else than the satisfaction due to some, I know not just what, adaptation between the...

In a word, the sentiment of mathematical elegance is naught else than the satisfaction due to some, I know not just what, adaptation between the...