Sunday, December 27, 2009

Quotations by Niels Abel

If you disregard the very simplest cases, there is in all of mathematics not a single infinite series whose sum has been rigorously determined. In other words,the most important parts of mathematics stand without a foundation.
Quoted in G F Simmons, Calculus Gems (New York 1992).

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