Given Quote by Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch Download Open image “A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.” — Abram Samoilovitch Besicovitch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Given Math Mathematical Mathematical proof Mathematician Mathematics Mathematics by mathematicians Numbers Numbers and math Proof Reputation
How happy the lot of the mathematician. He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A mathematician is an individual who proves his beliefs with equations.” — Bill Gaede Copy Share Image
Many of the proofs in mathematics are very long and intricate. Others, though not long, are very ingeniously constructed. — Edward Charles Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good… — Steven G. Krantz Copy Share Image
“It is an unfortunate fact that proofs can be very misleading. Proofs exist to establish once and for all, according to very high standards,… — Herbert S. Gaskill Copy Share Image
I am obliged to interpolate some remarks on a very difficult subject: proof and its importance in mathematics. All physicists, and a good many… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
Our faith in Mathematics is not likely to wane if we openly acknowledge that the personalities of even the greatest mathematicians may be as… — Gian-Carlo Rota Copy Share Image
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct… — James Whitbread Lee Glaisher Copy Share Image
The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues. — Donald Knuth Copy Share Image
Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself. — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
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The old charters of Massachusetts, Virginia, and the Carolinas had given title to strips of territory extending from the Atlantic westward to the Pacific. — Albert Bushnell Hart Copy Share Image
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Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
If life were like a competitive race, some people would be given a flying start and others would line up with weights tied to… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music...… — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color. — Al Capp Copy Share Image
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