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“People tend to think that mathematicians always work in sterile conditions, sitting around and staring at the screen of a computer, or at a ceiling, in a pristine office. But in fact, some of the best ideas come when you least expect them, possibly through annoying industrial noise.”

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Book:Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

Source: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

“The computer was, to the best of my feelings about the subject, not thinking like a mathematician, and it was much more successful, because it was thinking not like a mathematician.”

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Author:Kenneth Appel

“It is cheaper to pay mathematicians and computer scientists to design algorithms that will eliminate webspamming, rather than to pay lawyers to do lawsuits.”

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Author:Jennifer Tour Chayes

“Theoretical Computer Science is just as useless as everything we mathematicians do.”

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Author:Jennifer Tour Chayes

“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

“The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.”

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Author:Doron Zeilberger

“The computers are not replacing mathematicians; they are breeding them.”

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Book:The 2nd Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions, a new selection

Source: The 2nd Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions, a new selection

“I remember that mathematicians were telling me in the 1960s that they would recognize computer science as a mature discipline when it had 1,000 deep algorithms. I think we've probably reached 500.”

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Author:Donald Knuth

“Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.”

“Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.”

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Book:Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist

Source: Albert Einstein: philosopher-scientist