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If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see…
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The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and…
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If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the…
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Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The…
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The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application…
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The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and…
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Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is…
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When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
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Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
— Charles Baudelaire
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I hate the man who eats without knowing what he’s eating. I doubt his taste in more important things.
— Charles Lamb
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I hate a man who swallows [his food], affecting not to know what he is eating. I suspect his taste in higher…
— Charles Lamb
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Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The future mathematician ... should solve problems, choose the problems which are in his line, meditate upon their solution, and invent new…
— George Polya
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What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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The longer I live, the more I have the feeling like God looks down, like when you've just bitten into a vanilla…
— Rich Mullins
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Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if…
— George Santayana
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