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Quote by Philip J. Hanlon

“Are we going to do any thinking today, or is it going to be all math?”

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Philip J. Hanlon is an accomplished mathematician born in 1955. He has made significant contributions to the fields of combinatorial mathematics and graph theory. Professor Hanlon is highly regarded in the academic community, and his research has had a profound impact on mathematics education and applications. more

“Suppose someone follows the series "1,3,5,7, ..", and in writing the series 2x+1; and he asked himself "But am I always doing the same thing, or something different every time?" If from one day to the next someone promises: "Tomorrow I will give up smoking", does he say the same thing every day, or every day something different?”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The once-surprising existence of non-Euclidean models of Euclid's first four axioms can be seen as a sort of mathematical joke.”

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Author:John Allen Paulos

“Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.”

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Author:Mariska Hargitay

“So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an experimental mathematics direction, in a quasi-empirical direction. The reason why mathematicians are changing their working habits is the computer. I think that this is an excellent joke!”

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Author:Gregory Chaitin

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