Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi Quotes

• Mathematics exists solely for the honour of the human mind.

  Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

  Mind, Mathematics, Honour

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• The object of mathematics is the honor of the human spirit.

  Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

  Math, Honor, Spirit

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• Wherever Mathematics is mixed up with anything, which is outside its field, you will find attempts to demonstrate these merely conventional propositions a priori, and it will be your task to find out the false deduction in each case.

  Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

  Fields, Tasks, Mathematics

  "Vorlesungen über analytische Mechanik" edited by Helmut Pulte, 1996.

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• God ever arithmetizes.

  Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

  Math, Mathematics, Mathematical

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• The God that reigns in Olympus is Number Eternal.

  Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

  Numbers, Olympus, Reign

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