Hermann Weyl, 1932: mathematics sits where limitation and freedom intersect
TejasKumar_ · x · 2026-10-25
The shared image quotes Hermann Weyl's The Open World (1932): "Mathematics is not the rigid and uninspiring schematism which the layman is so apt to see in it; on the contrary, we stand in mathematics precisely at that point of intersection of limitation and freedom which is the essence of man himself."
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