Timeline for Famous mathematical quotes
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| Jul 3, 2023 at 15:56 | comment | added | atzlt | Or (slightly) more rigourously put I'd say mathematics is the art of duality. | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 19:42 | comment | added | Pineapple Fish | Or more rigourously put I'd say mathematics is the art of isomorphism. | |
| Dec 28, 2017 at 12:40 | comment | added | Ooker | Skeptics: Was there a person made the quote about poetry that Poincaré responded to? Literature: Is poetry the art of giving different names to the same thing? Mathematics: How correct is the quote that "mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things"? | |
| Nov 28, 2010 at 4:01 | comment | added | timur | This idea is in his "Science and Method" with an extensive discussion, and he does not mention anything about this being a response to something about poetry. | |
| Nov 30, 2009 at 5:44 | history | edited | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
contextualised the quote.
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| Nov 29, 2009 at 21:37 | history | answered | SixWingedSeraph | CC BY-SA 2.5 |