Ian Stewart Quote

Mathematics is not just a collection of isolated facts: it is more like a landscape; it has an inherent geography that its users and creators employ to navigate through what would otherwise be an impenetrable jungle.

Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematical Imagination, Chapter 3 (p. 38), Basic Books. 1995

Mathematics is not just a collection of isolated facts: it is more like a landscape; it has an inherent geography that its users and creators employ...

Mathematics is not just a collection of isolated facts: it is more like a landscape; it has an inherent geography that its users and creators employ...

Mathematics is not just a collection of isolated facts: it is more like a landscape; it has an inherent geography that its users and creators employ...

Mathematics is not just a collection of isolated facts: it is more like a landscape; it has an inherent geography that its users and creators employ...