Mrs. Piper and the Society for Psychical Research [Robertson] (New York, 1909), p. 151.
[1632]. Number was born in superstition and reared in mystery,... numbers were once made the foundation of religion and philosophy, and the tricks of figures have had a marvellous effect on a credulous people.—Parker, F. W.
Talks on Pedagogics (New York, 1894), P. 64.
[1633]. A rule to trick th’ arithmetic.—Kipling, R.
To the True Romance.
[1634]. God made integers, all else is the work of man.—Kronecker, L.
Jahresberichte der Deutschen Mathematiker Vereinigung, Bd. 2, p. 19.
[1635]. Plato said “ἀεὶ ὁ θεὸς γεωμέτρε.” Jacobi changed this to “ἀεὶ ὁ θεὸς ἀριθμητίζει.” Then came Kronecker and created the memorable expression “Die ganzen Zahlen hat Gott gemacht, alles andere ist Menschenwerk”—Klein, F.
Jahresbericht der Deutschen Mathematiker Vereinigung, Bd. 6, p. 136.
[1636]. Integral numbers are the fountainhead of all mathematics.—Minkowski, H.