J. W. N. Sullivan Quote

A history of mathematics is largely a history of discoveries which no longer exist as separate items, but are merged into some more modern generalization, these discoveries have not been forgotten or made valueless. They are not dead, but transmuted.


The History of Mathematics in Europe, Introduction (p. 10), Oxford University Press, Inc. 1925


A history of mathematics is largely a history of discoveries which no longer exist as separate items, but are merged into some more modern...

A history of mathematics is largely a history of discoveries which no longer exist as separate items, but are merged into some more modern...

A history of mathematics is largely a history of discoveries which no longer exist as separate items, but are merged into some more modern...

A history of mathematics is largely a history of discoveries which no longer exist as separate items, but are merged into some more modern...