Edmund Landau Quotes
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It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.
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My book is written, as befits such easy material, in merciless telegram style ("Axiom," "Definition," "Theorem," "Proof," occasionally "Preliminary Remark")... I hope I have written this book in such a way that a normal student can read it in two days. And then (since he already knows the formal rules from school) he may forget its contents.
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Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.
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Please don't read the preface for the teacher.
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The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.
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I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
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Please forget everything that you have learned in school; for you haven't learned it.