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"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
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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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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in 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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"It is hard to know what you are talking about in mathematics, yet no one questions the validity of what you say. There is no other realm of discourse half so queer."
Mathematics
"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
Mathematics
"You are an extremely valuable, worthwhile, significant person even though your present circumstances may have you feeling otherwise."
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"The most painful thing about mathematics is how far away you are from being able to use it after you have learned it."
Being
"The Theory of Groups is a branch of mathematics in which one does something to something and then compares the result with the result obtained from doing the same thing to something else, or something else to the same thing."
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"We have overcome the notion that mathematical truths have an existence independent and apart from our own minds. It is even strange to us that such a notion could ever have existed."
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"Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists."
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