"Ein Bourgeois, wer noch Algebra treibt! Es lebe die unbeschrankte Individualitat der transzendenten Zahlen! ["It's a bourgeois, who still does algebra! Long live the unrestricted individuality of transcendental numbers!"]"
— Carl Ludwig Siegel

January 1, 1970

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Found in his manuscript for Transcendental numbers (1950), quoted in André Weil, The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician (1992), p. 53,