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- What's the best part of being a mathematician? I'm not a religious man, but it's almost like being in touch with God when you're thinking…
- The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the insights…
- The spectacular thing about Johnny [von Neumann] was not his power as a mathematician, which was great, or his insight and his clarity, but his…
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