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George Temple

Data de nascimento: 2. Dezembro 1901
Data de falecimento: 30. Janeiro 1992

George Frederick James Temple foi um matemático, físico e monge britânico.

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„For the great majority of mathematicians, mathematics is“

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— George Frederick James Temple

100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)
Contexto: For the great majority of mathematicians, mathematics is... a whole world of invention and discovery—an art. The construction of a new theorem, the intuition of some new principle, or the creation of a new branch of mathematics is the triumph of the creative imagination of the mathematician, which can be compared to that of a poet, the painter and the sculptor.

„The great advances in mathematics have not been made by logic but by creative imagination.“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)
Contexto: Logical analysis is indispensable for an examination of the strength of a mathematical structure, but it is useless for its conception and design. The great advances in mathematics have not been made by logic but by creative imagination.

„Ninety per cent of all the mathematics we know has been discovered (or invented), in the last hundred years… the advances made in each of some dozen directions are converging into one single discipline uniting algebra, topology and analysis.“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

„Only by a study of the development of mathematics can its contemporary significance be understood.“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)
Contexto: The professional mathematician can scarcely avoid specialization and needs to transcend his private interests and take a wide synoptic view of the whole landscape of contemporary mathematics. His scientific colleagues are continually seeking enlightenment on the relevance of mathematical abstractions. The undergraduate needs a guidebook to the topography of the immense and expanding world of mathematics. There seems to be only one way to satisfy these varied interests... a concise historical account of the main currents... Only by a study of the development of mathematics can its contemporary significance be understood.

„Most mathematicians are by nature Platonists who cheerfully, unreflectingly and habitually employ such loaded phrases as 'We assume there exists…' or 'Therefore there exists…' an entity with such and such characteristics. Challenged by the realist they would probably reply that since the truths of mathematics are absolute, universal and eternal it is hard indeed to deny them an existence independent of human intelligence.“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

„Mathematical activity has taken the forms of a science, a philosophy and an art.“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

„During this century mathematics has been transformed…“

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„This book… is primarily and essentially an account of the discovery or invention of mathematical concepts, and the historical material is… divided and classified, neither chronologically nor biographically, but philosophically.“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

„The subject matter of mathematics has increased so rapidly and extensively that there is some element of truth in maintaining that mathematics is not so much a subject as a way of studying any subject, not so much a science as a way of life. We turn, then, from the attempt to characterize the material object of mathematics to an attempt to determine its formal object, i. e., its methodology.“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

„The concept of 'number' in its most elementary sense as the signless integer appears to be an immediate abstraction from quantitative reality subjected to processes of counting and measurement. Vulgar fractions arise from division of a quantity into equal parts. But in what sense is zero a number? Are there negative numbers? Are there numbers corresponding to incommensurable ratios? Each question requires for its solution a fresh exercise of that kind of creative imagination which we call mathematical abstraction.“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

„From Pythagoras to Boethius, when pure mathematics consisted of arithmetic and geometry while applied mathematics consisted of music and astronomy, mathematics could be characterized as the deductive study of 'such abstractions as quantities and their consequences, namely figures and so forth' (Acquinas ca. 1260). But since the emergence of abstract algebra it has become increasingly difficult to formulate a definition to cover the whole of the rich, complex and expanding domain of mathematics.“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

„Pure mathematics is much more than an armoury of tools and techniques for the applied mathematician. On the other hand, the pure mathematician has ever been grateful to applied mathematics for stimulus and inspiration. From the vibrations of the violin string they have drawn enchanting harmonies of Fourier Series, and to study the triode valve they have invented a whole theory of non-linear oscillations.“

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„Mathematics has also been developed as a philosophy, in the sense in which this term is defined by A. N. Whitehead as 'the endeavor to frame a coherent, logical and necessary system of general ideas in terms of which every element of our experience can be interpreted'. Substitute 'mathematics' for 'experience' and we have an admirable description of its speculative and philosophic development…. Philosophy of mathematics… has its paradoxes and antimonies, and also diverse schools of thought…“

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„The 'language theory' is inadequate as a description of the nature of mathematics.“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

„The history of mathematics throws little light on the psychology of mathematical invention.“

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„The function of logic in mathematics is critical rather than constructive.“

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„What would geometry be without Gauss, mathematical logic without Boole, algebra without Hamilton, analysis without Cauchy?“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

„The brilliant summaries by Bourbaki (1969) and Weyl (1951)… set a high standard of exposition, but… there is room for a history of mathematical ideas which will demand less mathematical expertise and offer a more detailed account of the motivation of research.“

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„As a science mathematics has been adapted to the description of natural phenomena, and the great practitioners in this field… have never concerned themselves with the logical foundations of mathematics, but have boldly taken a pragmatic view of mathematics as an intellectual machine which works successfully. Description has been verified by further observation, still more strikingly be prediction, and sometimes, more ominously, by control of natural forces. Happily, unresolved problems… still remain as challenges.“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

„There is the definition [of mathematics], boldly proposed by Pierce that 'Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions', and more explicitly formulated by Russel that 'Pure Mathematics is the class of all propositions of the form "p implies q"… it was… the purpose of Russell's treatise to provide a complete, exact and convincing justification of this definition… instead, he and Whitehead collaborated to give a magisterial account of the Principia Mathematica.“

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100 Years of Mathematics: a Personal Viewpoint (1981)

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