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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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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."
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"The flowering of geometry."
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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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"The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes."
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"I was on the mathematics faculty at M.I.T. from 1951 through until I resigned in the spring of 1959."
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""Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics."
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"The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence."
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"In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race."
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"The square root of I is I."
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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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"My father, who had previously been a civil engineer, died in the great influenza epidemic of 1918."
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"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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"The research included neutron resonance spectroscopy, the angular distribution of pion elastic and inelastic scattering on nuclei with optical model fitting."
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"The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure."
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