
“A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.”
Digital Typography, ch. 1, p. 8 (1999)
as translated by Arnold Dresden from: Brouwer, L. E. J. (1913). Intuitionism and formalism. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 20(2), 81–96. (quote on p. 84)
“A mathematical formula should never be "owned" by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.”
Digital Typography, ch. 1, p. 8 (1999)
Source: 1910s, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919), Ch. 18: Mathematics and Logic
100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)
Source: The Principles of Art (1938), p. 268
Source: Die Mathematik die Fackelträgerin einer neuen Zeit (Stuttgart, 1889), p. 94.
"Radio Power Will Revolutionize the World" in Modern Mechanics and Inventions (July 1934)
As quoted in Bigeometric Calculus: A System with a Scale-Free Derivative (1983) by Michael Grossman, and in Single Variable Calculus (1994) by James Stewart.
“The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age”
Principles of Mathematics (1903), Ch. I: Definition of Pure Mathematics, p. 5
1900s
Context: The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.
Preface
The Substitution of Similars, The True Principles of Reasoning (1869)
Attributed in Princeton & Mathematics: A Notable Record, Chaplin, Virginia, Princeton Alumni Weekly, May 9, 1958 http://www.princeton.edu/~mudd/finding_aids/mathoral/pmcxpaw.htm,