MacLane, Saunders Criteria for excellence in mathematics. (English) Zbl 0628.01019 Bull. Soc. Math. Belg., Sér. A 38, 301-302 (1986). A brief personal view - with examples and counterexamples - of characteristics of excellent mathematics, such as inevitability, depth, and timeliness. Reviewer: L.Harkleroad Cited in 9 Documents MSC: 01A60 History of mathematics in the 20th century 00A30 Philosophy of mathematics Keywords:inevitability; depth; timeliness PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{S. MacLane}, Bull. Soc. Math. Belg., Sér. A 38, 301--302 (1986; Zbl 0628.01019)