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"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
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"The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis."
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"Mathematicians are born, not made."
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"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
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"Mathematics is written for mathematicians."
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"Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?"
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"Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders."
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"Mathematicians do not study objects, but relations between objects."
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"The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure."
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"Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians."
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"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians."
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"The job in Wisconsin was the first genuine offer of an academic job in a university which I received."
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"I'm sure Church got some of his ideas from this trip to Europe."
Ideas
"I think Veblen had an interest in logic."
Interest
"I had a liberal arts education at Amherst College where I had two majors, mathematics and philosophy."
Education
"Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s."
Logic
"It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church."
Work
"I don't think Post often came to Princeton during the '30s. I can't remember ever seeing him in Princeton."
Post
"And what I learned in Church's course. He trained us intensively in his new system, which he was just developing. Two papers were presented. I think the second paper wasn't published until well after the course was finished."
Church
"As I say, there was this movement to try to bring philosophers and mathematicians together into an organization where they would talk to each other. An organization wasn't effective unless you had a journal. That's about all I know."
Mathematicians
"In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine."
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