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Theorem Quotes by George Polya
- The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application of it is…
- The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportional to…
- If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see clearly what it…
- 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…
More Theorem Quotes
- If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see… — George Polya
- No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole
- To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as… — Albert Camus
- And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles… — James Hilton
- The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application… — George Polya
- The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and… — George Polya
- We may consequently state the fundamental theorem of Natural Selection in the form: The rate of increase in fitness of any organism… — Ronald Fisher
- 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… — Paul Halmos