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"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"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."
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"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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"I was fortunate to find an extraordinary mathematics and applied mathematics program in Toronto."
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"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
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"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."
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"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."
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"The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man."
Man
"Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists."
Physics
"Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts."
Science
"The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science."
Science
"One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it."
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"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
Mathematics
"No one shall expel us from the paradise that Cantor has created for us."
Paradise
"He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain."
Mind
"No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite."
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"The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality."
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