“This book… is primarily and essentially an account of the discovery or invention of mathematical concepts, and the historical material is… divided and classified, neither chronologically nor biographically, but philosophically.”

—  George Frederick James Temple

100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "This book… is primarily and essentially an account of the discovery or invention of mathematical concepts, and the hist…" by George Frederick James Temple?
George Frederick James Temple photo
George Frederick James Temple 21
British mathematician 1901–1992

Related quotes

Peter Medawar photo

“A scientist is no more a collector and classifier of facts than a historian is a man who complies and classifies a chronology of the dates of great battles and major discoveries.”

Peter Medawar (1915–1987) scientist

with Jean Medawar) Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology (1985
1980s

Immanuel Kant photo

“Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.”

Immanuel Kant book Critique of Pure Reason

A 713, B 741
Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)

Robert G. Ingersoll photo

“The Christians mistake an incident for a cause, and honestly imagine that the Bible is the foundation of modern liberty and law. They forget physical conditions, make no account of commerce, care nothing for inventions and discoveries, and ignorantly give the credit to their inspired book.”

Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer

Orthodoxy (1884)

Edward Hopper photo

“Originality is neither a matter of inventiveness nor method, it is the essence of personality.”

Edward Hopper (1882–1967) prominent American realist painter and printmaker

Quoted by Selden Rodman, inConversations with Artists, Capricorn Books, New York, 1961
1941 - 1967

Hillary Clinton photo

“I did not send classified material, and I did not receive any material that was marked or designated classified.”

Hillary Clinton (1947) American politician, senator, Secretary of State, First Lady

Press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4UPOGdnM9k, Las Vegas, Nevada (18 August 2015)
Presidential campaign (April 12, 2015 – 2016)

“The classification of subject matter may be carried out for all sort of special purposes - to arrange books on shelves, to group inventions in patents, to classify the raw materials, intermediates and products of importance to a particular manufacturer, and so on. All such arrangements have their particular uses and their particular problems.”

Brian Campbell Vickery (1918–2009) British information theorist

Preface to the first edition.
Classification and indexing in science (1958)

David Ricardo photo

“Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.”

David Ricardo (1772–1823) British political economist, broker and politician

The High Price of Bullion (1810) http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/econ/ugcm/3ll3/ricardo/bullion

Baruch Spinoza photo

“Spinoza: the absolute philosopher, whose Ethics is the foremost book on concepts.”

Baruch Spinoza (1632–1677) Dutch philosopher

Gilles Deleuze, Negotiations (cited in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://www.iep.utm.edu/d/deleuze.htm#SH3b)
A - F, Gilles Deleuze

“It is clear today that modern science developed when people stopped debating metaphysical questions about the world and instead concerned themselves with the discovery of laws that were primarily mathematical.”

Mordechai Ben-Ari (1948) Israeli computer scientist

Source: Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005), Chapter 11, “Logic and Mathematics: Scientists Like It Clear and Precise” (p. 184)

Grady Booch photo

“Ultimately, discovery and invention are both problems of classification, and classification is fundamentally a problem of finding sameness. When we classify, we seek to group things that have a common structure or exhibit a common behavior.”

Grady Booch (1955) American software engineer

Source: Object-oriented design: With Applications, (1991), p. 133

Related topics