Mathematics/history

Famous quotes containing the words mathematics and/or history:

“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)

“It’s not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)