Edmund Landau quotes

“The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.”
-- Edmund Landau

Source : Edmund Landau (1951). “Differential and integral calculus”

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“Asked for a testimony to the effect that Emmy Noether was a great woman mathematician, he said: I can testify that she is a great mathematician, but that she is a woman, I cannot swear.”
-- Edmund Landau

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“It gives me the same pleasure when someone else proves a good theorem as when I do it myself.”
-- Edmund Landau

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“Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.”

Source : "This much I know". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2009.

“[George] Uhlenbeck was a highly gifted physicist. One of his remarkable traits was he would read every issue of T%he Physical Review from cover to cover.”

“Knowledge above the average can be crammed into the average man, but it remains dead, and in the last analysis sterile knowledge. The result is a man who may be a living dictionary but nevertheless falls down miserably in all special situations and decisive moments in life.”

“Why don't you light that candle ?”

“In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.”

“The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, but something that sits between writing and music”

“Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.”

“Letters form a by-path of literature, a charming, but occasional, retreat for people of cultivated leisure.”

“Socrates affirmed that only that which the reader already knows can be sparked by a reading, and that the knowledge cannot be acquired through dead letters.”

“Laws are a dead letter without courts to expound and define their true meaning and operation.”