Topic: intuition
Intuition is the conception of an attentive mind, so clear, so distinct, and so effortless that we cannot doubt what we have so conceived.
TOPICS: intuition, philosophy, psychology
Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
Mathematicians create by acts of insight and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
TOPICS: mathematicians, intuition, logic