Théophile de Donder citations

Théophile de Donder est un physicien, un mathématicien et un chimiste belge. Continuateur d'Henri Poincaré et d'Elie Cartan pour les invariants intégraux . De Donder va élargir et généraliser cette notion en introduisant celle de variant intégral. Wikipedia

✵ 19. août 1872 – 11. mai 1957

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Théophile de Donder: Citations en anglais

“Mathematical physics represents the purest image that the view of nature may generate in the human mind; this image presents all the character of the product of art; it begets some unity, it is true and has the quality of sublimity; this image is to physical nature what music is to the thousand noises of which the air is full…”

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Théophile de Donder

as quoted by Ilya Prigogine in his Autobiography http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1977/prigogine-autobio.html given at the occasion of Prigogine's 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.