Harold Davenport quotes
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“A peculiarity of the higher arithmetic is the great difficulty which has often been experienced in proving simple general theorems which had been suggested quite naturally by numerical evidence.”
-- Harold DavenportSource : Harold Davenport (1970). “The higher arithmetic: an introduction to the theory of numbers”
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“Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem.”
-- Harold DavenportSource : Harold Davenport, Bryan John Birch, Heini Halberstam, Claude Ambrose Rogers (1977). “The collected works of Harold Davenport”, Academic Pr
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Source : A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber
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“Be modest, humble, simple. Control your anger.”
Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation
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“Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.”
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