Paul Halmos Quotes:
Ocupation: Mathematician
Life: March 3, 1916 - October 2, 2006
Birthday: March 3
Death: October 2
The heart of mathematics consists of concrete examples and concrete problems. Big general theories are usually afterthoughts based on small but profound insights; the insights themselves come from concrete special cases.
source: Paul Richard Halmos (1983). “Selecta: expository writing”, Springer Verlag
topic: Heart, Profound, Special
