"Any book that revisits the foundations of analysis has to reckon with the formidable precedent of Edmund Landau's Gru…"

"Wir Mathematiker sind alle ein bißchen meschugge."

"Please don't read the preface for the teacher."

"I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly n…"

"The multiplication table will not occur in this book, not even the theorem,2 \cdot 2 = 4,but I would recommend, as an…"

"My book is written, as befits such easy material, in merciless telegram style ("Axiom," "Definition," "Theorem," "Pro…"

"In 1933 Landau was dismissed from his [University of Göttingen] chair on the grounds of his race. An important collea…"

"He possessed an enormous capacity for work - up to 12 or more hours a day. ... He worked to completely rigorous rules…"

"Not only the physical but also the intellectual landscape of German-language mathematics in the early 1930s would be …"

"The principal events... took place in the early months of 1933... By April the Nazis had almost total control of Germ…"