Kronecker, Leopold (1823 - 1891)
God made the integers, all else is the work of man.
Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker Vereinigung.
Kronecker, Leopold (1823-1891)
Number theorists are
like lotus-eaters --
having once tasted
of this food they
can never give it
up.
In H. Eves,
Mathematical Circles
Squared, Boston:
Prindle, Weber and
Schmidt, 1972.
Kraft, Prinz zu Hohlenlohe-Ingelfingen (1827 - 1892)
Mathematics is
indeed dangerous in
that it absorbs
students to such a
degree that it dulls
their senses to
everything else.
Attributed by Karl
Schellbach. In H.
Eves, Mathematical
Circles Adieu,
Boston: Prindle,
Weber and Schmidt,
1977.
Kovalevsky, Sonja
Say what you know,
do what you must,
come what may.
[Motto on her paper
"On the Problem of
the Rotation of a
Solid Body about a
Fixed Point"]
Koestler, Arthur (1905- )
Nobody before the
Pythagoreans had
thought that
mathematical
relations held the
secret of the
universe.
Twenty-five
centuries later,
Europe is still
blessed and cursed
with their heritage.
To non-European
civilizations, the
idea that numbers
are the key to both
wisdom and power,
seems never to have
occurred.
Koestler, Arthur (1905- )
In the index to the
six hundred odd
pages of Arnold
Toynbee's A Study of
History, abridged
version, the names
of Copernicus,
Galileo, Descartes
and Newton do not
occur yet their
cosmic quest
destroyed the
medieval vision of
an immutable social
order in a walled-in
universe and
transformed the
European landscape,
society, culture,
habits and general
outlook, as
thoroughly as if a
new species had
arisen on this
planet.
In G. Simmons,
Calculus Gems, New
York: McGraw Hill
Inc., 1992.
Kline, Morris
Logic is the art of
going wrong with
confidence.
In N. Rose,
Mathematical Maxims
and Minims, Raleigh,
NC: Rome Press Inc.,
1988.
Kline, Morris
A proof tells us
where to concentrate
our doubts.
In N. Rose,
Mathematical Maxims
and Minims, Raleigh,
NC: Rome Press Inc.,
1988.
Kline, Morris
Statistics: the
mathematical theory
of ignorance.
In N. Rose,
Mathematical Maxims
and Minims, Raleigh,
NC: Rome Press Inc.,
1988.
Kleinhenz, Robert J.
When asked what it
was like to set
about proving
something, the
mathematician
likened proving a
theorem to seeing
the peak of a
mountain and trying
to climb to the top.
One establishes a
base camp and begins
scaling the
mountain's sheer
face, encountering
obstacles at every
turn, often
retracing one's
steps and struggling
every foot of the
journey. Finally
when the top is
reached, one stands
examining the peak,
taking in the view
of the surrounding
countryside and then
noting the
automobile road up
the other side!