Lancelot Hogben Quote

If mathematics is a game, there is no reason why people should play it if they do not want to. With football, it belongs to those amusements without which life would be endurable.


Mathematics for the Millions, Chapter I (p. 31), W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 1917


If mathematics is a game, there is no reason why people should play it if they do not want to. With football, it belongs to those amusements without...

If mathematics is a game, there is no reason why people should play it if they do not want to. With football, it belongs to those amusements without...

If mathematics is a game, there is no reason why people should play it if they do not want to. With football, it belongs to those amusements without...

If mathematics is a game, there is no reason why people should play it if they do not want to. With football, it belongs to those amusements without...