Evo nečeg i za matematičku populaciju:
Carl Friedrich Gauss
When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
The total number of Dirichlet's publications is not large: jewels are not weighed on a grocery scale.
Niels Abel
[About Gauss' mathematical writing style]
He is like the fox, who effaces his tracks in the sand with his tail.
Paul Erdös
There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave.
Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education.
I cannot compute
for
. This may be due to old age, stupidity, and laziness.
Kurt Gödel
I don't believe in natural science.
Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.
Gödel gave a formal demonstration of the inadequacy of formal demonstrations.
David Hilbert
The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the
Riemann hypothesis been proven?
Georg Cantor
Je le vois, mais je ne le crois pas! [I see it but I don't believe it!] (nakon dokaza da je
)
The essence of mathematics lies in its freedom.
In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.
Leonhard Euler
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
[upon losing the use of his right eye]
Now I will have less distraction.
Augustin-Louis Cauchy
Men pass away, but their deeds abide.
[U vezi sa
]: ... we can repudiate completely and which we can abandon without regret because one does not know what this pretended sign signifies nor what sense one ought to attribute to it.
Bernhard Riemann
If only I had the theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough.
Thales of Miletus
I will be sufficiently rewarded if when telling it to others you will not claim the discovery as your own, but will say it was mine.
I did not become a father because I am fond of children.
Henri Poincaré
Mathematicians are born, not made.
Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.
Later generations will regard Mengenlehre (set theory) as a disease from which one has recovered.
Zero is the number of objects that satisfy a condition that is never satisfied. But as never means "in no case", I do not see that any progress has been made.
André Weil
God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.
Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men.
Every mathematician worthy of the name has experienced ... the state of lucid exaltation in which one thought succeeds another as if miraculously... this feeling may last for hours at a time, even for days. Once you have experienced it, you are eager to repeat it but unable to do it at will, unless perhaps by dogged work...
Louis Mordell
I am the world's worst good bridge player.
All I remember about the examination is that there was a question on Sturm's theorem about equations, which I could not do then and cannot do now.
There are two reasons why I propose to make myself thoroughly and unashamedly happy by talking about myself. The first is that on several occasions, both in England and America, I have been told that I am a legendary character.
When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for so trivial a reason as being an FRS, but because I used to dive off a five-metre board.
In 1912 I attended an international mathematical congress held in Cambridge. I went into the buffet room where all the distinguished mathematicians were gathered and I thought to myself, "What an odd looking lot they are."
G H Hardy
[On Ramanujan]
I remember once going to see him when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was not an unfavorable omen. "No," he replied, "it is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways."
Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
J E Littlewood
The surprising thing about this paper is that a man who could write it would.
I read in the proof sheets of Hardy on Ramanujan: "As someone said, each of the positive integers was one of his personal friends." My reaction was, "I wonder who said that; I wish I had." In the next proof-sheets I read (what now stands), "It was Littlewood who said..."
The paper is very heavy going, and I should never have read it had I had not written it myself.
Before creation God did just pure mathematics. Then He thought it would be a pleasant change to do some applied.
I've been giving this lecture to first-year classes for over twenty-five years. You'd think they would begin to understand it by now.
Mathematics is a dangerous profession; an appreciable proportion of us goes mad.
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