Abraham Robinson quotes
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“Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus.”
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“As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.”
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“The Committee supports the idea that there should be, within the University of California, a campus which puts particular emphasis on the education of undergraduates within the framework of a College system.”
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“I've made it a policy to move every five years, either physically or in my research.”
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“Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin' fed like where drugs and guns come from”
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“The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.”
Source : "'We Should Not Fear Being Called Radical'". Interview with Farish A. Noor, theseoultimes.com.
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Source : Clifford Geertz (1973). “The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays”, p.43, Basic Books
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“Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.”
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Source : "Sundance Interview with Lynn Shelton - Director of Touchy Feely". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, womenandhollywood.com.
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