Charles Hermite Quotes

#1. I turn away with fright and horror from the lamentable evil of functions which do not have derivatives.

Charles Hermite

#2. In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

Charles Hermite

#3. I shall risk nothing on an attempt to prove the transcendence of p. If others undertake this enterprise, no one will be happier than I in their success. But believe me, it will not fail to cost them some effort.

Charles Hermite

#4. There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

Charles Hermite

#5. We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Charles Hermite

#6. I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.

Charles Hermite

#7. Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for five hundred years.

Charles Hermite

#8. Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

Charles Hermite