Steven G. Krantz quotes
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“Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.”
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“A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good mathematician eventually does so - and proves a theorem.”
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“This book reminds me of James Gleick's Chaos. The ideas and stories in Loving and Hating Mathematics are timely, interesting, and sometimes even profound. The authors, writing for nonspecialists, take pains to explain technical ideas in nontechnical language, and the book should interest general readers as well as a large mathematical audience.”
-- Steven G. Krantz
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“The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.”
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“I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “The End Of Alice”, p.149, Granta Books
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“The only difference is now more young black men are in the spotlight.”
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“When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.”
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Source : "Journal d'un poète"by Alfred de Vigny, (p. 32), 1949.
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