Space/mathematics

Famous quotes containing the words space and/or mathematics:

    Time in his little cinema of the heart
    Giving a première to Hate and Pain;
    And Space urbanely keeping us apart.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.
    Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)