Invariant Theory Quotes

#1. This is not mathematics, it is theology.
(On being exposed to Hilbert's work in invariant theory.)

Paul Gordan

#2. I don't know what's worse, being ignored or stared at.

Renata Suerth

#3. Mist devils spun in the air, dispersed then reassembled, gyrating above the ground, vapor-gamboling.

J. Cameron McClain

#4. He wants me to stay in London and go to restaurants and theaters and marry him like a reasonable person.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#5. I listen to blues music a lot and that's a good person feeling bad and celebrating that pain by releasing it in that kind of joyous fashion.

Henry Rollins

#6. the problem is then to develop a theory of invariance with respect to arbitrary linear transformations, in which, however, in contra-distinction to the case of affine geometry, we have a definite invariant quadratic form, viz. the metrical groundform once and for all as an absolute datum.

Hermann Weyl

#7. Nothing pleases which is not freshened by variety.

Publilius Syrus

#8. Life is a series of urgent choices demanding firm commitment to this or to that.

Alan W. Watts