Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians.
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Mathematics is written for mathematicians.
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Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.
It may be true, that men, who are mere mathematicians, have certain specific shortcomings, but that is not the fault of mathematics, for it is equally true of every other exclusive occupation.
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
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By keenly confronting the enigmas that surround us, and by considering and analysing the observations that I have made, I ended up in the domain of mathematics, Although I am absolutely without training in the exact sciences, I often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists.
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I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future.
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Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.
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Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.
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First rate mathematicians choose first rate people, but second rate mathematicians choose third rate people.
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Need we add that mathematicians themselves are not infallible?
quote by Henri Poincare
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All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
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Mathematicians are born, not made.
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It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
Mathematicians stand on each other's shoulders.
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Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.
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Mathematicians are like Frenchmen whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
I like to move among painters, mathematicians, psychologists, people who can tell me something.
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Abel has left mathematicians enough to keep them busy for 500 years.
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