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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…
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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…
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[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as…
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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…
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...the source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of…
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The computer is important, but not to mathematics.
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It is the duty of all teachers, and of teachers of mathematics in particular, to expose their students to problems much more…
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The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.
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As is well known the principle of virtual velocities transforms all statics into a mathematical assignment, and by D'Alembert's principle for dynamics,…
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Every businessman is in favor of freedom for everybody else, but when it comes to himself that's a different question. He's always…
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I am a cutter, you see. Also a snipper, a slicer, a carver, a jabber. I am a very special case. I…
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The theory of the determination of wages in a free market is simply a special case of the general theory of value.…
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