Leopold Kronecker Quotes

#1. Number theorists are like lotus-eaters
having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

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#2. What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

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#3. Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.
The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.

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#4. The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

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#5. God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man

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#6. All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

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#7. God made the integers; all else is the work of man.

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#8. Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.

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#9. Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.

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#10. God made the integers, man made the rest.

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#11. God made the integers; all the rest is the work of Man.

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