But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's, be it… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other units, "universal",… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably due… — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov Copy Share Image
