William Vallance Douglas Hodge citations

William Vallance Douglas Hodge est un mathématicien écossais. Il fut l'élève d'Edmund Taylor Whittaker. Il est notamment connu pour ses travaux reliant la géométrie différentielle et la géométrie algébrique. Il formulé la conjecture qui porte son nom. Wikipedia

✵ 17. juin 1903 – 7. juillet 1975

“The last thirty years [1925 to 1955] have seen an enormous improvement in the position of geometry as a branch of mathematics, or, rather, have seen the re-integration of geometry into the main fabric of mathematics. Indeed, one can go further and say that with the restoration of geometry to its rightful place in the mathematical scheme the process of fragmentation which had been doing so much harm to mathematics has been reversed, and we may look forward to the day in which there are no longer analysts, algebraists, geometers and so on, but simply mathematicians. Mathematical research has two aspects, motivation and technique, and when the latter gains control the result is apt to be excessive specialisation. The revolution of geometrical thought, and the reinstatement of geometry as one of the major mathematical disciplines, have helped to bring about a unification of mathematics which we may justly regard as one of the major contributions of the last quarter century to the subject.”

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W. V. D. Hodge

W. V. D. Hodge, Changing Views of Geometry. Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association, 14th April, 1955, The Mathematical Gazette 39 (329) (1955), 177-183.