Leopold Kronecker Quotes & Sayings

Die ganzen Zahlen hat der liebe Gatt gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk.
The dear God has made the whole numbers, all the rest is man's work. — Leopold Kronecker

Number theorists are like lotus-eaters
having once tasted of this food they can never give it up. — Leopold Kronecker

God made the integers; all the rest is the work of Man. — Leopold Kronecker

Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy. — Leopold Kronecker

The Good Lord made all the integers; the rest is man's doing. — Leopold Kronecker

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist? — Leopold Kronecker

God made the integers; all else is the work of man. — Leopold Kronecker

God made the integers, man made the rest. — Leopold Kronecker

All results of the profoundest mathematical investigation must ultimately be expressible in the simple form of properties of the integers. — Leopold Kronecker

God made the natural numbers; all else is the work of man — Leopold Kronecker

Analysis does not owe its really significant successes of the last century to any mysterious use of sqrt(-1), but to the quite natural circumstances that one has infinitely more freedom of mathematical movement if he lets quantities vary in a plane instead of only on a line. — Leopold Kronecker