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For scholars and layman alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that alone can answer the question: What is mathematics?

Herbert Robbins

The notion that the intellect can create meaningful postulational systems at its whim is a deceptive half-truth. Only under the discipline of responsibility to the organic whole, only guided by intrinsic necessity, can the free mind achieve results of scientific value.

Herbert Robbins

Herbert Robbins

Herbert Robbins

Born: January 12, 1915

Died: February 12, 2001 (aged 86)

Bio: Herbert Ellis Robbins was an American mathematician and statistician. He did research in topology, measure theory, statistics, and a variety of other fields.

Known for:

What Is Mathematics? (1941)
Selected Papers (1985)
Herbert Robbins Selected Papers (1985)
Introduction to Statistics (1975)

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