Jean Dieudonne famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.
-- Jean Dieudonne

#Mathematics
On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism and say 'mathematics is just a combination of meaningless symbols,'... Finally we are left in peace to go back to our mathematics and do it as we have always done, with the feeling each mathematician has that he is working with something real. The sensation is probably an illusion, but it is very convenient.
-- Jean Dieudonne

#Real #Believe #Feelings
The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.
-- Jean Dieudonne

#Passion #Math #Curiosity
Analytical geometry has never existed. There are only people who do linear geometry badly, by taking coordinates, and they call this analytical geometry. Out with them!
-- Jean Dieudonne

#People #Linear #Geometry
It is indubitable that a 50-year-old mathematician knows the mathematics he learned at 20 or 30, but has only notions, often rather vague, of the mathematics of his epoch, i.e. the period of time when he is 50.
-- Jean Dieudonne

#Years #Mathematics #Periods
Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas.
-- Jean Dieudonne

#Ideas #Fusion #Principles

Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naÃ¯vetÃ© of the mathematician himself.
All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.
I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded...
... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).
Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
The new art must be based upon science - in particular, upon mathematics, as the most exact, logical, and graphically constructive of the sciences.
If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.
The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself.

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