“I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it – and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.”

“I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system, that one is really astonished that there are so many people who devote themselves to it – and, still worse, it is absolutely devoid of any rigor.”

— Niels Henrik Abel