Jordan Ellenberg quotes
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“This is a collaboration between a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer. It sounds like a joke, a complex analyst, a dynamical system expert, and an arithmetical algebraic geometer walk into a bar.”
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“André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.”
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“I think we need more math majors who don't become mathematicians. More math major doctors, more math major high school teachers, more math major CEOs, more math major senators. But we won't get there unless we dump the stereotype that math is only worthwhile for kid geniuses.”
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“Improbable things happen a lot...”
-- Jordan EllenbergSource : "Did Nate Silver Actually Get Anything Wrong?". Interview with Leon Neyfakh, www.slate.com. May 17, 2016.
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“My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read.”
-- Jordan EllenbergSource : "How Writers Read (Vol. 3)". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. December 11, 2014.
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“André Weil always looked like that, not only when he talked about the devil.”
-- Jordan Ellenberg
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