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“The very term 'combinatorial methods' has an oxymoronic character.”

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Joel Spencer is a renowned mathematician born on April 20, 1946. He is known for his extensive research and contributions in the fields of combinatorial mathematics and probability theory. more

“When I entered graduate school I had carried out the instructions given to me by my father and had knocked on both Murray Gell-Mann's and Feynman's doors and asked them what they were currently doing. Murray wrote down the partition function for the three-dimensional Ising model and said it would be nice if I could solve it (at least that is how I remember the conversation). Feynman's answer was 'nothing'.”

“But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“The understanding of mathematics is necessary for a sound grasp of ethics.”

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Author:Socrates

“The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.”

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