In N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC: Rome Press Inc., 1988.
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"O God! I could be bounded
in a nutshell, and count myself king of infinite space, were it not that
I have bad dreams."
Hamlet
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"The mathematician is
fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their
beauty he finds everlasting truth."
Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) In N. Rose Mathematical Maxims and Minims, Raleigh NC: Rome Press Inc., 1988. |
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Abel was done by poverty, Galois by stupidity. In all the history of science there is no completer example of the triumph of crass stupidity over untamable genius than is afforded by the all too brief life of Évariste Galois. The record of his misfortunes might well stand as a sinister monument to all self-assured pedagogues, unscrupulous politicians, and conceited academicians. Galois was no "ineffectual angel", but even his magnificent powers were shattered before the massed stupidity aligned against him, and he beat his life out fighting one unconquerable fool after another. |
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