Jean Dieudonné Quote

This difficulty lead very gradually to the recognition of the need for a shorthand to make the sequence of operations easily comprehensible: here we have the problem of notation, which crops up again after every introduction of new objects, and which will probably never cease to torment mathematicians.


Mathematics — The Music of Reason, Chapter III, Section 7 (p. 49), Springer-Verlag. Berlin, Germany. 1992


This difficulty lead very gradually to the recognition of the need for a shorthand to make the sequence of operations easily comprehensible: here we...

This difficulty lead very gradually to the recognition of the need for a shorthand to make the sequence of operations easily comprehensible: here we...

This difficulty lead very gradually to the recognition of the need for a shorthand to make the sequence of operations easily comprehensible: here we...

This difficulty lead very gradually to the recognition of the need for a shorthand to make the sequence of operations easily comprehensible: here we...