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“It's necessary for Israelis and Palestinians to make the compromises that are required to get the direct talks back on track.”

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William Hague

William Hague is a prominent British politician, born on March 26, 1961. He served as the Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom and is a key figure in the Conservative Party. more

“Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of solution to the Königsberg bridge problem bears little relationship to mathematics, and I do not understand why you expect a mathematician to produce it, rather than anyone else, for the solution is based on reason alone, and its discovery does not depend on any mathematical principle.”

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Author:Leonhard Euler

“In the meantime, most noble Sir, you have assigned this question to the geometry of position, but I am ignorant as to what this new discipline involves, and as to which types of problem Leibniz and Wolff expected to see expressed in this way.”

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Author:Leonhard Euler

“More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.”

Mathematics Unlimited

Book:The Turtle Diary

Source: The Turtle Diary

“We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.”

Mathematics

Author:Jean Dieudonne

“The emphasis on mathematical methods seems to be shifted more towards combinatorics and set theory - and away from the algorithm of differential equations which dominates mathematical physics.”

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Book:The Neumann Compendium

Source: The Neumann Compendium

“It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of non-verbal Wisdom and verbal Intelligence was through the letters of the alphabet.”

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Author:Johanna Drucker

“I have to admit that he was not bad at combinatorial analysis - a branch, however, that even then I considered to be dried up.”

Mathematics Analysis Branches

Book:His Master's Voice

Source: His Master's Voice

“But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combinatorial analysis, that is to say, everyone with all the others, and especially every man with all the women, old maids or married, and every woman with all the men. All I had to do was to select two names at random, better if different sex, and ask a third person, "What happened with those two?" and lo and behold, a splendid story was unfolded for me, since everyone knew the story of everyone else.”

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Author:Primo Levi

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