"As a boy of six I could understand the proof of a mathematical theorem more readily than that meat had to be cut with…"

"What attracted me so strongly and exclusively to mathematics, apart from the actual content, was particularly the spe…"

"There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians: Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein."

"As any reader of Eisenstein must realise, he felt hard pressed for time during the whole of his short mathematical ca…"

"As Eisenstein shows, his method for constructing elliptic functions applies beautifully to the simpler case of trigon…"

"Dirichlet was not satisfied to study Gauss' "Disquisitiones arithmeticae" once or several times, but continued throug…"

"A peculiar beauty reigns in the realm of mathematics, a beauty which resembles not so much the beauty of art as the b…"

"It is true that mathematics, owing to the fact that its whole content is built up by means of purely logical deductio…"

"Mathematical knowledge, therefore, appears to us of value not only in so far as it serves as means to other ends, but…"

"Out of the interaction of form and content in mathematics grows an acquaintance with methods which enable the student…"