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“Genius is a thing that happens, not a kind of person.”
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
“A mathematical proof should resemble a simple and clear-cut constellation, not a scattered cluster in the Milky Way.”
― A Mathematician's Apology
― A Mathematician's Apology
“It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth, unless the truth is a hypothesis it didn’t occur to you to consider.”
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
“Safety warning: never divide by zero unless a licensed mathematician is present.”
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
― How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking
“Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. “Immortality” may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.”
― A Mathematician's Apology
― A Mathematician's Apology
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