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"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."
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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."

"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 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."

"Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics."
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