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French Mathematician, Theoretical Physicist, Engineer, Philosopher of Science, Polymath, and Mathematically "The Last Universalist"
: A French mathematician, theoretical physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science. He is often described as a polymath, and in mathematics as "The Last Universalist", since he excelled in all fields of the discipline as it existed during his lifetime. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
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Quote #8 on Education Struggle Quotes >> Learning and Tradition
“Formerly, when one invented a new function it was in view of some practical goal; today one invents them expressly to point out flaws in the reasoning of our fathers and one will never derive anything from them but that.”
Source: "A History of Mathematics," by Uta C. Merzbach and Carl B. Boyer, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2011. Chapter 23: Twentieth-Century Legacies, Page 565.
"A History of Mathematics," by Uta C. Merzbach and Carl B. Boyer, Third Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
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