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Proof Quotes by George Polya
- If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the youngsters the impression…
- There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain…
- In the "commentatio" (note presented to the Russian Academy) in which his theorem on polyhedra (on the number of faces, edges and vertices) was first…
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