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"Few rounds.... I am damn good mathematician!2 999 999 999 999 999 999 + 11 999 999 999 999 999 999 = 14 999 999 999 999 999 998."

"He calculated the number of bricks in the wall, first in twos and then in tens and finally in sixteens. The numbers formed up and marched past his brain in terrified obedience. Division and multiplication were discovered. Algebra was invented and provided an interesting diversion for a minute or two. And then he felt the fog of numbers drift away, and looked up and saw the sparkling, distant mountains of calculus."

"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."

"I tried to fit it in with some previous broad conceptual understanding of some part of mathematics that would clarify the particular problem I was thinking about."

"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."

"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."

"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."

"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."

"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
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