
p, 125
"On the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics" (Jan. 3, 1856)
Source: Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (1972), p. 495
p, 125
"On the Harmony of Theory and Practice in Mechanics" (Jan. 3, 1856)
“Mathematics doesn’t care about those beyond the numbers.”
"I and I," p. 30
The Shape (2000), Sequence: “Happiness of Atoms”
Methods of Mathematics Applied to Calculus, Probability, and Statistics (1985)
“Profound study of nature is the most fertile source of mathematical discoveries.”
Source: The Analytical Theory of Heat (1878), Ch. 1, p. 7
Forward, as quoted by Mario Livio, Is God a Mathematician? (2009)
Ausdehnungslehre (1844)
§ 2.
Linear Associative Algebra (1882)
Context: The branches of mathematics are as various as the sciences to which they belong, and each subject of physical enquiry has its appropriate mathematics. In every form of material manifestation, there is a corresponding form of human thought, so that the human mind is as wide in its range of thought as the physical universe in which it thinks.
100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)
Marginal note in his mathematical notebook (ca. 1826) as quoted by Øystein Ore, Niels Henrik Abel: Mathematician Extraordinary (1957)
The Evolution of the Physicist's Picture of Nature (1963)
Context: Just by studying mathematics we can hope to make a guess at the kind of mathematics that will come into the physics of the future. A good many people are working on the mathematical basis of quantum theory, trying to understand the theory better and to make it more powerful and more beautiful. If someone can hit on the right lines along which to make this development, it may lead to a future advance in which people will first discover the equations and then, after examining them, gradually learn how to apply them.