Leopold Kronecker quotes:

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  • The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing.

  • God made the integers, man made the rest.

  • What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

  • God made integers, all else is the work of man.

  • Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.

  • God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man

  • All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers.

  • Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line.

  • Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk. The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work.

  • Number theorists are like lotus-eaters -- having once tasted of this food they can never give it up.

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