John B. Conway Quotes:

To many, mathematics is a collection of theorems. For me, mathematics is a collection of examples; a theorem is a statement about a collection of examples and the purpose of proving theorems is to classify and explain the examples...

- John B. Conway

topic: Example, Purpose, Mathematics, Theorems

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