Good ideas Quote by Doron Zeilberger

“When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.”

Doron Zeilberger

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Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

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