There exists, if I am not mistaken, an entire world which is the totality of mathematical truths, to which we have access only with our mind, just as a world of physical reality exists, the one like the other independent of ourselves, both of divine creation.

". In a letter to Thomas Stieltjes in 1893 Hermite famously remarked: "I turn with terror and horror from this lamentable scourge of continuous functions with no derivatives. Charles Hermite (French pronunciation: ​[ʃaʁl ɛʁˈmit]) (December 24 1822 – January 14 1901) was a French mathematician who did research on number theory quadratic forms invariant theory orthogonal polynomials elliptic functions and algebra.