Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

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Mathematics is a subject that is the same everywhere in the world. It doesn't matter what country you're from or what culture you belong to, the rules and ideas of mathematics are the same for everyone. No matter where you are, the math you learn is the same as the math people learn in other parts of the world. Mathematics is a universal language that connects people from all different backgrounds.

About David Hilbert

David Hilbert was a renowned German mathematician and philosopher who made groundbreaking contributions to various fields, including invariant theory, the foundations of geometry, and the foundations of mathematics. He presented a collection of problems that set the course for mathematical research in the 20th century.

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Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom – that may be necessary in religion, but in time a scientific result will establish itself.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

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.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)

He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.

David Hilbert

German mathematician (1862-1943)