Mathematicians Quotes
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Mathematicians seem to have no difficulty in creating new concepts faster than the old ones become well understood.
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"Do you know," the Devil confided, "not even the best mathematicians on other planets - all far ahead of yours - have solved it? Why, there is a chap on Saturn - he looks something like a mushroom on stilts - who solves partial differential equations mentally; and even he's given up."
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Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.
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Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.
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Mathematicians are like lovers. Grant a mathematician the least principle, and he will draw from it a consequence which you must also grant him, and from this consequence another.
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Mathematicians tend to prefer a worst-case analysis, a kind of paranoia that is especially understandable if you live in Israel!
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It is really this “mathematical mindset” that seems to be most useful to those who are not trained to think as mathematicians.
