Tobias Dantzig Quote

Banish the infinite process, and mathematics pure and applied is reduced to the state in which it was known to the pre-Pythagoreans.


Number: The Language of Science (4th edition), Chapter Seven, 15 (p. 137)


Banish the infinite process, and mathematics pure and applied is reduced to the state in which it was known to the pre-Pythagoreans.

Banish the infinite process, and mathematics pure and applied is reduced to the state in which it was known to the pre-Pythagoreans.

Banish the infinite process, and mathematics pure and applied is reduced to the state in which it was known to the pre-Pythagoreans.

Banish the infinite process, and mathematics pure and applied is reduced to the state in which it was known to the pre-Pythagoreans.