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Things Quotes by John von Neumann
- Neumann, to a physicist seeking help with a difficult problem: Simple. This can be solved by using the method of characteristics. Physicist: I'm afraid I…
- Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
- A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know…
- If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.
- By and large it is uniformly true that in mathematics there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment it becomes useful;…
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