Leopold Kronecker
God made the integers; all else is the work of man.
God made integers, all else is the work of man.
God made the integers, man made the rest.Collection: Men
What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Mean
God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man.Collection: Men
All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.Collection: Simple
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.Collection: Discovery
The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.Collection: Math
Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.Collection: Math