If I Were To Awaken

I Have Tried To Avoid Long Numerical Computations, Thereby Following Riemann's Postulate That Proofs Should Be Given Through Ideas And Not Voluminous Computations.

The Tool Which Serves As Intermediary Between Theory And Practice, Between Thought And Observation, Is Mathematics; It Is Mathematics Which Builds The Linking Bridges And Gives The Ever More Reliable Forms.

No Other Question Has Ever Moved So Profoundly The Spirit Of Man; No Other Idea Has So Fruitfully Stimulated His Intellect; Yet No Other Concept Stands In Greater Need Of Clarification Than That Of The Infinite.

Wir Mussen Wissen. Wir Werden Wissen. We Must Know. We Will Know. Inscribed On His Tomb In Gilttingen.

Geometry, Like Arithmetic, Requires For Its Logical Development Only A Small Number Of Simple, Fundamental Principles. These Fundamental Principles Are Called The Axioms Of Geometry.