Charles Hermite famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.
-- Charles Hermite

#Evil #Derivatives #Horror
There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.
-- Charles Hermite

#Mistake #Independent #Reality
I believe that numbers and functions of Analysis are not the arbitrary result of our minds; I think that they exist outside of us, with the same character of necessity as the things of objective reality, and we meet them or discover them, and study them, as do the physicists, the chemists and the zoologists.
-- Charles Hermite

#Believe #Character #Reality
We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.
-- Charles Hermite

#Mathematics #Masters #Servant
Abel has left mathematicians something to keep them busy for five hundred years.
-- Charles Hermite

#Science #Years #Abel
In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.
-- Charles Hermite

#Roles #Mathematics #Masters
Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.
-- Charles Hermite

#Hands #Evil #Giving
I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their success. But believe me, it will not fail to cost them some effort.
-- Charles Hermite

#Believe #Effort #Risk

We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed; investors no longer fund them and are not likely to in the future.
The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
But just as much as it is easy to find the differential [derivative] of a given quantity, so it is difficult to find the integral of a given differential. Moreover, sometimes we cannot say with certainty whether the integral of a given quantity can be found or not.
I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as a derivative of consciousness.
I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
I like 'Rocky Horror.'
I don't inflict horrors on readers.
Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

Charles Hermite famous quotes

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