--- title: "4 Saharon Shelah Quotes - Famous Mathematician" description: "Israeli mathematician... | Saharon Shelah is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutger..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff8/saharon-shelah-67459_best-things_given-a-conjecture-the-best-thing-is-to_1331678.jpg" --- # Saharon Shelah (1945) Mathematician **4** quotes in **38** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Saharon Shelah is a mathematician. ## Quick Facts About Saharon Shelah Born July 3, 1945 Profession Mathematician ## About Saharon Shelah Israeli mathematician... \| Saharon Shelah is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Rutgers University in New Jersey. ## Quotes by Saharon Shelah > [Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saharon-shelah/given-a-conjecture-the-best-thing-is-to-prove-it-the-second-best/) Saharon Shelah [Best things](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/best-things/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff8/saharon-shelah-67459_best-things_given-a-conjecture-the-best-thing-is-to_1331678.jpg) > [There is an old maxim that says that two empires that are too large will collapse. The analog in set theory is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saharon-shelah/there-is-an-old-maxim-that-says-that-two-empires-that-are-too-large/) Saharon Shelah [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/131/saharon-shelah-67459_analog_there-is-an-old-maxim-that-says-that-two_1818003.jpg) > [Number theorists say that number theory is too complicated, so let's pretend that there is only one prime number, and then let's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saharon-shelah/number-theorists-say-that-number-theory-is-too-complicated-so-let-s/) Saharon Shelah [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a92/saharon-shelah-67459_complicated_number-theorists-say-that-number-theory_2227965.jpg) > [Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saharon-shelah/cardinal-arithmetics-is-much-older-than-number-theory-people-used-to/) Saharon Shelah [Advanced civilization](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/advanced-civilization/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bbf/saharon-shelah-67459_advanced-civilizatio_cardinal-arithmetics-is-much-older-than_2395234.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saharon-shelah/#itemlist", "name": "Saharon Shelah Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Given a conjecture, the best thing is to prove it. The second best thing is to disprove it. The third best thing is to prove that it is not possible to disprove it, since it will tell you not to waste your time trying to disprove it. 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