Jim Propp quotes
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“MacPherson told me that my theorem can be viewed as blah blah blah Grothendieck blah blah blah, which makes it much more respectable.”
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“I think some intuition leaks out in every step of an induction proof.”
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“What promotes math progress even more than new ideas are new technical tools and habits of thought that encapsulate existing ideas, so that insights of one generation become the instincts of the next.”
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“Mathematics is not yet capable of coping with the naïveté of the mathematician himself.”
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Source : "Dictionary of Scientific Biography". Book edited by M. Steck, 1970-1990.
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“Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.”
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“Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.”
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“The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.”
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Source : "The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.