“A mathematician who is not also something of a poet will never be a complete mathematician.”
Quotes by Karl Weierstrass
“When I wrote this, only God and I understood what I was doing. Now, God only knows.”
“It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician.”
Karl WeierstrassKarl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass was a German mathematician often cited as the "father of modern analysis". Despite leaving university without a degree, he studied mathematics and trained as a school ...