The mathematician is still regarded as the hermit who knows little of the ways of life outside his cell, who spends his time compounding incredible and incomprehensible theorems in a strange, clipped, unintelligible jargon.


Mathematics and the Imagination, Introduction (p. xiii), Simon & Schuster. 1940

James Roy Newman Quotes

The mathematician is still regarded as the hermit who knows little of the ways of life outside his cell, who spends his time compounding incredible...

The mathematician is still regarded as the hermit who knows little of the ways of life outside his cell, who spends his time compounding incredible...

The mathematician is still regarded as the hermit who knows little of the ways of life outside his cell, who spends his time compounding incredible...

The mathematician is still regarded as the hermit who knows little of the ways of life outside his cell, who spends his time compounding incredible...