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Andre Weil was a renowned mathematician born on May 6, 1906, and died on August 6, 1998. He made significant contributions to algebraic geometry and number theory, particularly with his work on the Weil conjectures and the Weil-Châtelet theorem. Weil's research had a profound impact on the development of modern mathematics.

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“When a branch of mathematics ceases to interest any but the specialists, it is very near its death, or at any rate dangerously close to a paralysis, from which it can be rescued only by being plunged back into the vivifying source of the science.”

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“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.”

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“Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.”

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“Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced . . . the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously . . . this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work. . . .”

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Book:The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician

Source: The Apprenticeship of a Mathematician

“Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.”

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“First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.”

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“What is crucial is there be laws.”

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“In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.”

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Author:Andre Weil

About the Author

Born: May 6, 1906
Died: August 6, 1998
Known for: Mathematician
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