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“In a way, mathematics is the only infinite human activity. It is conceivable that humanity could eventually learn everything in physics or biology. But humanity certainly won't ever be able to find out everything in mathematics, because the subject is infinite. Numbers themselves are infinite. That's why mathematics is really my only interest.”
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“Daniel Bernoulli: "Then this distinguished scholar informed me that the celebrated mathematician, Cramer, had developed a theory on the same subject several years before I produced my paper. Indeed I have found his theory so similar to mine that it seems miraculous that we independently reached sch close agreement on this sort of subject.”
― Ten Great Ideas about Chance
― Ten Great Ideas about Chance
“Mathematicians need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.”
― The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
― The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdős and the Search for Mathematical Truth
“Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.”
― The Housekeeper and the Professor
― The Housekeeper and the Professor
“Do you know what the mathematical expression is for longing? ... The negative numbers. The formalization of the feeling that you are missing something.”
― Smilla's Sense of Snow
― Smilla's Sense of Snow
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