I am afraid that mathematics will perish by the end of this century if the present trend for senseless abstractin - as I call it: theory of the empty set - cannot be blocked up. (Carl Ludwig Siegel)

I am afraid that mathematics will perish by the end of this century if the present trend for senseless abstractin - as I call it: theory of the empty set - cannot be blocked up.

Carl Ludwig Siegel

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