Doron Zeilberger quotes
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“The 'lowly' finite is MUCH more beautiful than any 'infinite'”
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“Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.”
-- Doron ZeilbergerSource : "The Narrow-Minded and Ignorant Referee's Report [and Zeilberger's Response] of Zeilberger's Paper 'Automaric CounTilings'". Ruthgers School of Arts and Sciences Website, sites.math.rutgers.edu. April 15, 2006.
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“Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.”
-- Doron ZeilbergerSource : "The Narrow-Minded and Ignorant Referee's Report [and Zeilberger's Response] of Zeilberger's Paper 'Automaric CounTilings'". Personal blog at Rutgers School of Arts and Design website, April 15, 2006.
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“Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.”
-- Doron ZeilbergerSource : "Randomness and Complexity: From Leibniz to Chaitin". Book edited by Cristian S. Calude, 2007.
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“Conventional wisdom, fooled by our misleading "physical intuition", is that the real world is continuous, and that discrete models are necessary evils for approximating the "real" world, due to the innate discreteness of the digital computer.”
-- Doron ZeilbergerSource : ""Real" Analysis is a Degenerate Case of Discrete Analysis". Ruthgers School of Arts and Sciences Website, sites.math.rutgers.edu. November 26, 2001.
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“When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.”
-- Doron ZeilbergerSource : "Self-avoiding Walks, the Language of Science, and Fibonacci Numbers". Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Volume 54, Issue 1, September 1996.
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“Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.”
-- Doron ZeilbergerSource : "[Nothing]". Personal Journal of Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger, 2009.
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“The real work of us mathematicians, from now until, roughly, fifty years from now, when computers won't need us anymore, is to make the transition from human-centric math to machine-centric math as smooth and efficient as possible.”
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“You can keep counting forever. The answer is infinity. But, quite frankly, I don't think I ever liked it. I always found something repulsive about it. I prefer finite mathematics much more than infinite mathematics. I think that it is much more natural, much more appealing and the theory is much more beautiful. It is very concrete. It is something that you can touch and something you can feel and something to relate to. Infinity mathematics, to me, is something that is meaningless, because it is abstract nonsense.”
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“No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.”
-- Doron Zeilberger
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