Quotes from Niels Henrik Abel

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils.

He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail. { Describing the writing style of famous mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss }

By studying the masters and not their pupils.

It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics one should study the masters and not the pupils.

The divergent series are the invention of the devil, and it is a shame to base on them any demonstration whatsoever. By using them, one may draw any conclusion he pleases and that is why these series have produced so many fallacies and so many paradoxes.

By studying the masters -- not their pupils.