"Algebra is the offer made made by the devil to the mathematician..." -Sir Michael Atiyah quote in @divbyzero's talk #MAAthFest #mathquotepic.twitter.com/XSJDexaODm
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As for Newton, he called algebra "the mathematics of bunglers," and declared it "fit to find out, but entirely unfit to consign to writing."
Of course Newton was also beyond question among the greatest masters of algebra that that great and noble art has ever known.
Thank you!
You are most welcome. Oh, and Henri Poincare is also my favorite mathematician, by the way. Magnificent genius, and wrote better than Weyl.
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