Hermann Hankel Quote

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generation adds a new story to the old structure.


Die Entwickelung der Mathematik In den letzen Jahrhunderten (p. 25), Akademische Antrittsrede. Tübingen, Germany. 1884


In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generation...

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generation...

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generation...

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generation...