Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists … - Felix Klein

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Felix Klein

Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.

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Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions.

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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

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Regarding the fundamental investigations of mathematics, there is no final ending. . . no first beginning.

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The presentation of mathematics in schools should be psychological and not systematic. The teacher, so to speak, should be a diplomat. He must take account of the psychic processes in the boy in order to grip his interest, and he will succeed only if he presents things in a form intuitively comprehensible. A more abstract presentation is only possible in the upper classes.

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