“The shortest path between two truths in the real domain passes through the complex domain.”
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Jacques Hadamard
“The object of mathematical rigor is to sanction and legitimize the conquests of intuition, and there was never any other object for it.”
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Jacques Hadamard
“To parents who despair because their children are unable to master the first problems in arithmetic I can dedicate my examples. For, in arithmetic, until the seventh grade I was last or nearly last.”
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Jacques Hadamard
“Logic merely sanctions the conquests of the intuition.”
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Jacques Hadamard
“Practical application is found by not looking for it, and one can say that the whole progress of civilization rests on that principle.”
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Jacques Hadamard
Source : Jacques Hadamard (1954). “An Essay on the Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field”, p.124, Courier Corporation
“Can the existence of a mathematical entity be proved without defining it ?”
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Jacques Hadamard
“There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.”
“What used to be called prejudice is now called a null hypothesis.”
Source : A. W. F. Edwards (1984). “Likelihood”, p.180, CUP Archive
“The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so”
“To Thales the primary question was not what do we know, but how do we know it.”
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