Emil Artin quotes
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“It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.”
-- Emil ArtinSource : Emil Artin (2016). “Geometric Algebra”, p.14, Courier Dover Publications
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“This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appeal to the reader. In most cases he will be able to go on and later he may return to the parts which he skipped.”
-- Emil ArtinSource : Emil Artin (2016). “Geometric Algebra”, p.7, Courier Dover Publications
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“I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The liveliness of the lecture, which is meant to give an impetus to the sudents, would suffer tremendously.”
-- Emil ArtinSource : Emil Artin (1965). “Collected papers”
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“I looked around and acknowledged that what you see around you is proof of what exists within you.”
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“I don't consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.”
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“Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.”
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“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”
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“The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.”
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“If you had done something twice, you are likely to do it again.”
Source : Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike (1984). “The UNIX Programming Environment”, Prentice Hall
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Source : "The World of Mathematics". Book by J. R. Newman, 1956.
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