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"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
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"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."
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"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."
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"Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper."
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"No more Lastrygonians. Ella fluttered down and landed next to them. "Six minus six is zero. Spears are good for subtraction, yep."
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"To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be."
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"Whatever the course, whether the course was boring or interesting to me, whether I was talented in mathematics or not talented in languages, my parents expected A's."
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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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"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."
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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."
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"The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated."
Mathematics
"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."
Mathematics
"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
"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."
Existence
"Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists."
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"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."
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