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• To be a scholar of mathematics you must be born with talent, insight, concentration, taste, luck, drive and the ability to visualize…
• 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…
• [Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as…
• Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and…
• ...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of…
• The computer is important, but not to mathematics.
• It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more…
• The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
• The joy of suddenly learning a former secret and the joy of suddenly discovering a hitherto unknown truth are the same to…
• A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to…
• Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.
• The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method,…

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