Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Andre Weil

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a French mathematician Andre Weil.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

André Weil was a French mathematician, known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry. He was a founding member and the de facto early leader of the mathematical Bourbaki group. The philosopher Simone Weil was his sister. The writer Sylvie Weil is his daughter.

French - Mathematician | May 6, 1906 - August 6, 1998

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Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.

Andre Weil

Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

Andre Weil

What is crucial is there be laws.

Andre Weil

God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.

Andre Weil

First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.

Andre Weil

When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.

Andre Weil

In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

Andre Weil

Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .

Andre Weil

Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Andre Weil

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