Norway, Mathematician June 14, 1917 – August, 6, 2007.
Atle Selberg was a Norwegian mathematician known for his work in analytic number theory, and in the theory of automorphic forms, in particular bringing them into relation with spectral theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1950.
The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right.
A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.
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