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“The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.”

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Author:Graham Greene

“Many great scientists and philosophers, among them René Descartes, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Immanuel Kant, Thorstein Veblen, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein, have had similarly strange and solitary personalities.”

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Book:A Beautiful Mind

Source: A Beautiful Mind

“Viewed one way, then, for at least five years between 1904 and 1909, Ramanujan floundered- mostly out of school, without a degree, without contact with other mathematicians. And yet, was the cup half-empty or half-full?”

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Book:The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

Source: The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan

“We have concluded that the trivial mathematics is, on the whole, useful, and that the real mathematics, on the whole, is not.”

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Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there must be something mysterious about the normal law since mathematicians think it is a law of nature whereas physicists are convinced that it is a mathematical theorem.”

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Book:Statistical Independence in Probability, Analysis, and Number Theory

Source: Statistical Independence in Probability, Analysis, and Number Theory

“As the physicist Murray Gell-Mann once remarked: “Faculty members are familiar with a certain kind of person who looks to the mathematicians like a good physicist and looks to the physicists like a good mathematician. Very properly, they do not want that kind of person around.”

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Book:Chaos: Making a New Science

Source: Chaos: Making a New Science

“Programmers are not mathematicians, no matter how much we wish and wish for it.”

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Author:Richard P. Gabriel

“In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fraulein Noether was the most significant mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.”

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Author:Albert Einstein

“The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius.”

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Author:Pierre Simon de Laplace

“There is no sign of a mathematical pedigree in Nash’s ancestry or any indication that mathematics was much in the air at the Nash household.”

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Book:A Beautiful Mind

Source: A Beautiful Mind