Charles Hermite Quotes

France, Mathematician
December 24, 1822 – January, 14, 1901.

Prof Charles Hermite (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl ɛʁˈmit]) FRS FRSE MIAS (24 December 1822 – 14 January 1901) was a French mathematician who did research concerning number theory, quadratic forms, invariant theory, orthogonal polynomials, elliptic functions, and algebra.

Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.

Charles Hermite
We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.

Charles Hermite

There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

Charles Hermite
- World
- Mind
- Reality
I turn aside with a shudder of horror from this lamentable plague of functions which have no derivatives.

Charles Hermite