Frases de Gotthold Eisenstein

Ferdinand Gotthold Max Eisenstein foi um matemático alemão.

Especialista em teoria dos números e análise matemática, provou diversos resultados que escaparam até mesmo de Carl Friedrich Gauss. Assim como Évariste Galois e Niels Henrik Abel antes dele, Eisenstein morreu antes de atingir a idade de 30 anos. Nasceu e morreu em Berlim. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Abril 1823 – 11. Outubro 1852
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Gotthold Eisenstein: Frases em inglês

“I grew accustomed to delve more deeply into their relationships and to grasp whole theories as a single entity. That is how I conceived the idea of mathematical beauty…”

Curriculum Vitae (1843)
Contexto: What attracted me so strongly and exclusively to mathematics, apart from the actual content, was particularly the specific nature of the mental processes by which mathematical concepts are handled. This way of deducing and discovering new truths from old ones, and the extraordinary clarity and self-evidence of the theorems, the ingeniousness of the ideas... had an irresistible fascination for me. Beginning from the individual theorems, I grew accustomed to delve more deeply into their relationships and to grasp whole theories as a single entity. That is how I conceived the idea of mathematical beauty...

“As a boy of six I could understand the proof of a mathematical theorem more readily than that meat had to be cut with one's knife, not one's fork.”

Curriculum Vitae - an autobiographical statement written when Eisenstein was 20, often referred to as his "Autobiography" (1843)