Most notably, although his mission seemed important when he left, nobody finds it or him especially interesting any more. Because mathematics stands above everything. The works of Abel and Kronecker are as good today as they were four hundred years ago, and it will always be so.
New roads arise, but the old ones lead on.
They do not become overgrown. Only mathematics does not fear it. Up there, I understood how final it is. From this came parastatics. It can only be explained using mathematics.