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Carl Ludwig Siegel Quotes

1896–1981 Germany

Carl Ludwig Siegel (31 December 1896 – 4 April 1981) was a German mathematician who won the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1978.

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I am afraid that mathematics will perish by the end of this century if the present trend for senseless abstraction — as I call it: theory of the empty set — cannot be blocked up.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carl Ludwig Siegel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.