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Elegance Quotes
"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics."
"If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!"
"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
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