“Mathematics is not a deductive science - that's a cliche. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses, and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.”
Quote by Paul R. Halmos
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I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography
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