Lipman Bers quotes
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“Mathematics is a collection of cheap tricks and dirty jokes.”
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“There are two kind of mathematicians, smart ones, and dumb ones. I am one of the dumb ones.”
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“... mathematics is very much like poetry ... what makes a good poem -- a great poem -- is that there is a large amount of thought expressed in very few words. In this sense formulas like or are poems.”
-- Lipman Bers
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“I had drawings that were the first time that mathematics was put into visual form.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.”
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“We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.”
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Source : Criss Angel (2009). “Mindfreak: Secret Revelations”, p.18, Harper Collins
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