Richard Hamming Quote

The Postulates of Mathematics Were Not on the Stone Tablets that Moses Brought Down from Mt. Sinai.


(Emphatic capitalization in original.) - The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (1980)


The Postulates of Mathematics Were Not on the Stone Tablets that Moses Brought Down from Mt. Sinai.

The Postulates of Mathematics Were Not on the Stone Tablets that Moses Brought Down from Mt. Sinai.

The Postulates of Mathematics Were Not on the Stone Tablets that Moses Brought Down from Mt. Sinai.

The Postulates of Mathematics Were Not on the Stone Tablets that Moses Brought Down from Mt. Sinai.