Latchezar Tomov

“Contrairement à une idée reçue, la logique n’est pas l’ennemie de l’imagination. Elle est même sa grande alliée. La véritable ennemie de l’imagination, celle qui bloque la compréhension et nous fait nous sentir idiots, c’est toujours la peur.”
― David Bessis, Mathematica

“Even among schemata, competition leavened with cooperation is sometimes both possible and advantageous. In the realm of theories, for instance, competing notions are not always mutually exclusive; sometimes a synthesis of several ideas comes much closer to the thruth than any of them does individually.”
― Murray Gell-Mann, The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex

“In mathematics, however, as everywhere else, men are inclined to form parties, so that there arose schools of pure synthesists and schools of pure analysts, who placed chief emphasis upon absolute “purity of method,” and who were thus more one-sided than the nature of the subject demanded. Thus the analytic geometricians often lost themselves in blind calculations, devoid of any geometric representation, The synthesists, on the other hand, saw salvation in an artificial avoidance of all formulas, and thus they accomplished nothing more, finally, than to develop their own peculiar language formulas, different from ordinary formulas.”
― Felix Klein

“The contribution of mathematics, and of people, is not computation but intelligence.”
― Gilbert Strang, Linear Algebra and Its Applications