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Mathematics is one of the essential emanations of the human spirit, a thing to be valued in and for itself, like art or poetry.

Oswald Veblen

The branch of physics which is called Elementary Geometry was long ago delivered into the hands of mathematicians for the purposes of instruction. But, while mathematicians are often quite competent in their knowledge of the abstract structure of the subject, they are rarely so in their grasp of its physical meaning.

Oswald Veblen

At the same time it will not be forgotten that the physical reality of geometry can not be put in evidence with full clarity unless there is an abstract theory also... Thus, for example, while the term electron may have more than one physical meaning, it is by no means such a protean object as a point or a triangle.

Oswald Veblen

The conclusion seems inescapable: that formal logic has to be taken over by the mathematicians. The fact is that there does not exist an adequate logic at the present time, and unless the mathematicians create one, no one else is likely to do so.

Oswald Veblen

Oswald Veblen

Oswald Veblen

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Born: June 24, 1880

Died: August 10, 1960 (aged 80)

Bio: Oswald Veblen was an American mathematician, geometer and topologist, whose work found application in atomic physics and the theory of relativity.

Known for:

The Foundations of Differential Geometry (1932)
Invariants of Quadratic Differential Forms (1926)
Projective Geometry (1910)
Introduction to infinitesimal analysis (1907)

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