Alfred Renyi quotes
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“If I feel unhappy, I do mathematics to become happy. If I am happy, I do mathematics to keep happy.”
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“Can the difficulty of an exam be measured by how many bits of information a student would need to pass it? This may not be so absurd in the encyclopedic subjects but in mathematics it doesn't make any sense since things follow from each other and, in principle, whoever knows the bases knows everything. All of the results of a mathematical theorem are in the axioms of mathematics in embryonic form, aren't they?”
-- Alfred RenyiSource : Alfréd Rényi (1984). “A diary on information theory”
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“If you have no goals you will be bored: you will be unhappy because you are empty.”
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“... preliminary accounting, banking and surveying (known as arithmetic, algebra and geometry).”
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“Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.”
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“For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty and it's not what it is for me,”
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