"Ninety per cent of all the mathematics we know has been discovered (or invented), in the last hundred years... the ad…"

"During this century mathematics has been transformed..."

"The professional mathematician can scarcely avoid specialization and needs to transcend his private interests and tak…"

"The brilliant summaries by Bourbaki (1969) and Weyl (1951)... set a high standard of exposition, but... there is room…"

"This book... is primarily and essentially an account of the discovery or invention of mathematical concepts, and the …"

"From Pythagoras to Boethius, when pure mathematics consisted of arithmetic and geometry while applied mathematics con…"

"The subject matter of mathematics has increased so rapidly and extensively that there is some element of truth in mai…"

"The concept of 'number' in its most elementary sense as the signless integer appears to be an immediate abstraction f…"

"At each stage of in the advance of mathematical thought the outstanding characteristics are novelty and originality. …"

"There is the definition [of mathematics], boldly proposed by Pierce that 'Mathematics is the science which draws nece…"