The progress of mathematics is not smooth, nor is the science, as the layman imagines, a collection of subtle principles and infallible results, springing mysteriously yet convincingly into the minds of their inventors.


The Nature of Mathematics: A Critical Survey, Section III (p. 169), Routledge & Kegan Paul. 1933

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The progress of mathematics is not smooth, nor is the science, as the layman imagines, a collection of subtle principles and infallible results,...

The progress of mathematics is not smooth, nor is the science, as the layman imagines, a collection of subtle principles and infallible results,...

The progress of mathematics is not smooth, nor is the science, as the layman imagines, a collection of subtle principles and infallible results,...

The progress of mathematics is not smooth, nor is the science, as the layman imagines, a collection of subtle principles and infallible results,...