Identity/mathematics

Famous quotes containing the words identity and/or mathematics:

“All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)

“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)