Open/mathematics

Famous quotes containing the words open and/or mathematics:

    Go forth under the open sky, and list
    To Nature’s teachings,
    William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    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)