Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: March 3, 1916 - October 2, 2006
Birthday: March 3
Death: October 2
Mathematics is not a deductive science, that's a cliché ... What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
source: "I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography". Book by Paul Halmos, 1985.
topic: Errors, Trials, Trial And Error, Mathematical Proof, Mathematics And Science, Mathematics By Mathematicians, Learning Math, Math And Science, Funny Mathematics, Theorems, Guesswork