Mathematicians Are Born, Not Made.

In The Old Days When People Invented A New Function They Had Something Useful In Mind.

Thus, Be It Understood, To Demonstrate A Theorem, It Is Neither Necessary Nor Even Advantageous To Know What It Means.

But All Of My Efforts Served Only To Make Me Better Acquainted With The Difficulty, Which In Itself Was Something.

Tolstoi Explains Somewhere In His Writings Why, In His Opinion, “science For Science's Sake” Is An Absurd Conception. We Cannot Know All The Facts, Since They Are Practically Infinite In Number. We Must Make A Selection. Is It Not Better To Be Guided By Utility, By Our Practical, And More Especially Our Moral, Necessities?

In One Word, To Draw The Rule From Experience, One Must Generalize; This Is A Necessity That Imposes Itself On The Most Circumspect Observer.