“We must learn a new modesty. We have stormed the heavens, but succeeded only in building fog upon fog, a mist which will not support anybody who earnestly desires to stand upon it. What is valid seems so insignificant that it may be seriously doubted whether anlaysis is at all possible.”
Quote by Hermann Weyl
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Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl was a German mathematician born on November 9, 1885, and died on December 8, 1955. He made significant contributions to various fields of mathematics, including algebra, geometry, group theory, and mathematical physics, which had a profound impact on the development of mathematics in the 20th century. more
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