Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Hermann Hankel

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German mathematician Hermann Hankel.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Hermann Hankel was a German mathematician. Having worked on mathematical analysis during his career, he is best known for introducing the Hankel transform and the Hankel matrix.

German - Mathematician | February 14, 1839 - August 29, 1873

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In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

Hermann Hankel

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

Hermann Hankel

Isolated, so-called "pretty theorems" have even less value in the eyes of a modern mathematician than the discovery of a new "pretty flower" has to the scientific botanist, though the layman finds in these the chief charm of the respective sciences.

Hermann Hankel

[Mathematics is] purely intellectual, a pure theory of forms, which has for its objects not the combination of quantities or their images, the numbers, but things of thought to which there could correspond effective objects or relations, even though such a correspondence is not necessary.

Hermann Hankel

Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Hermann Hankel

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