Reflection/mathematics

Famous quotes containing the words reflection and/or mathematics:

    In the last analysis, love is only the reflection of a man’s own worthiness from other men.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    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)