"It can now be made clear what is to be understood, in general, by a mathematical structure. The common character of t…"

"The "structures" are tools for the mathematician; as soon as he has recognized among the elements, which he is studyi…"

"At the center of our universe are found the great types of structures... they might be called the mother-structures..…"

"From the axiomatic point of view, mathematics appears thus as a storehouse of abstract forms -- the mathematical stru…"

"Nicolas Bourbaki is the nom-de-plume adopted in the 1930s by a group of out standing young French mathematicians who …"

"But in the eyes of contemporary structuralist mathematicians, like the Bourbaki, the Erlanger Program amounts to only…"

"This present art, in which we use those twice five Indian figures, is called algorismus."

"It was not exactly as you say. In practice, the 12 of us never lived at home at the same time, because the family gre…"

"In this respect I recall with much sympathy the writer Virginia Woolf who wrote about this need for private space (A …"

"Hermite was born in 1822, four years before Riemann. Now in his sixties, he had become one of the standard-bearers fo…"