Hermann Hesse Quotes About Mathematics

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  • ... let us recall the well-known statement of a university professor in the Republic of the Massagetes: 'Not the faculty but His Excellency the General can properly determine the sum of two and two.'

    Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.354, Macmillan
  • You treat world history as a mathematician does mathematics, in which nothing but laws and formulas exist, no reality, no good and evil, no time, no yesterday, no tomorrow, nothing but an eternal, shallow, mathematical present.

    Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.168, Macmillan
  • Among mathematicians, even in those days, the reputation of being a good Glass Bead Game player meant a great deal; it was equivalent to being a very good mathematician.

    Hermann Hesse (2002). “The Glass Bead Game: (Magister Ludi) A Novel”, p.33, Macmillan
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