Michael Polanyi Quote

Modern mathematics can be kept alive only by a large number of mathematicians cultivating different parts of the same system of values: a community which can be kept coherent only by the passionate vigilance of universities, journals and meetings, fostering these values and imposing the same respect for them on all mathematicians.


Personal Knowledge, Chapter 6, Section 11 (p. 192), Harper & Row, Publishers. 1962


Modern mathematics can be kept alive only by a large number of mathematicians cultivating different parts of the same system of values: a community...

Modern mathematics can be kept alive only by a large number of mathematicians cultivating different parts of the same system of values: a community...

Modern mathematics can be kept alive only by a large number of mathematicians cultivating different parts of the same system of values: a community...

Modern mathematics can be kept alive only by a large number of mathematicians cultivating different parts of the same system of values: a community...