While applied mathematics is object-directed, pure mathematics has no outside object; being concerned with objects of its own creation, it may be described as "object creating."


Personal Knowledge, Chapter 5, Section 2 (p. 76), Harper & Row, Publishers. 1962

Michael Polanyi Quotes

While applied mathematics is object-directed, pure mathematics has no outside object; being concerned with objects of its own creation, it may be...

While applied mathematics is object-directed, pure mathematics has no outside object; being concerned with objects of its own creation, it may be...

While applied mathematics is object-directed, pure mathematics has no outside object; being concerned with objects of its own creation, it may be...

While applied mathematics is object-directed, pure mathematics has no outside object; being concerned with objects of its own creation, it may be...