Comments on: Importance of Mathematics http://rnfc.org/ivey The Richard Ivey School of Business Mon, 12 Jul 2010 02:51:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Nico http://rnfc.org/ivey/math-libraries/importance/comment-page-1/#comment-46 Nico Tue, 16 Feb 2010 08:18:30 +0000 http://rnfc.org/ivey/?page_id=1100#comment-46 As a mathematical discipline travels far from its empirical source… it is beset with very grave dangers. It becomes more and more purely aestheticizing, more and more purely l’art pour l’art. (…) In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much “abstract” inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration. Hungarian American mathematician John von Neumann As a mathematical discipline travels far from its empirical source… it is beset with very grave dangers. It becomes more and more purely aestheticizing, more and more purely l’art pour l’art. (…) In other words, at a great distance from its empirical source, or after much “abstract” inbreeding, a mathematical subject is in danger of degeneration.

Hungarian American mathematician John von Neumann

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