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“If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?” quote by David Hilbert — Download Open image

“If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?”

David Hilbert

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[On Cantor's work:] The finest product of mathematical genius and one of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

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Geometry is the most complete science.

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Who of us would not be glad to lift the veil behind which the future lies hidden; to cast a glance at the next advances of our science and at the secrets of its development during future centuries? What particular goals will there be toward which the leading mathematical spirits of coming generations will strive? What new methods and new…

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How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler…

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Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be necessary in religion, but in time a…

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Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of…

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A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first…

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Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples…

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Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?... Mathematics is, in my opinion, an indivisible…

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One must be able to say at all times--instead of points, straight lines, and planes--tables, chairs, and beer mugs

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I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.

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I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line and plane, if one adds to these all the axioms of groups i-v as characteristics. If one is looking for other definitions of point, perhaps by means of paraphrase in terms of extensionless, etc., then,…

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There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior…

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