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If you have to prove a theorem, do not rush. First of all, understand fully what the theorem says, try to see…
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The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and…
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If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the…
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Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The…
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The world is anxious to admire that apex and culmination of modern mathematics: a theorem so perfectly general that no particular application…
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The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and…
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Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is…
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When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
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What did that mean, to kiss? You put your face up like that to say goodnight and then his mother put her…
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If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as…
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For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two…
— Virginia Woolf
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According to Greek mythology, humans were originally created with four arms, four legs and a head with two faces. Fearing their power,…
— Plato
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Mathematics has two faces: it is the rigorous science of Euclid, but it is also something else. Mathematics presented in the Euclidean…
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He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one,…
— John Dryden
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Happy is the moment we sit together, with two forms, with two faces, yet one soul. You and I.
— Rumi
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Every African-American I know has two faces. There's the face that we have for ourselves and the face we put on for…
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