"Mathematics is a language."
Josiah Willard Gibbs (America, 1839-1903).
"The limits of my
language
are the limits of my world."
Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austria, 1889-1951).
"I
believe that at present the most important method by
which a mathematician derives the greatest benefit
from his work as an investigator of nature is the
systematic
classification of quantities".
James Clerk Maxwell (Scotland, 1831-1879).