Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most were beginning to feel they had learned enough to last for the rest of their lives. They remained mathematicians, but largely went their own way.
Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
Mathematics is as old as Man.
Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.
No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
The mathematician, carried along on his flood of symbols, dealing apparently with purely formal truths, may still reach results of endless importance for our description of the physical universe.
On Wall Street he and a few others - how many? three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? had become precisely that... Masters of the Universe.
Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
Mathematicians are born, not made.