#mathematician

The ingenious method of expressing every possible number using a set of ten symbols (each symbol having a place value and an absolute value) emerged in India. The idea seems so simple nowadays that its significance and profound importance is no longer appreciated ... The importance of this invention is more readily appreciated when one considers that it was beyod the two greatest men of antiquity, Archimedes and Apollonius. ↗

— Pierre Simon De Laplace

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One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies. ↗

— Stefan Banach

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Proof is an idol before whom the pure mathematician tortures himself. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

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The only thing that might have annoyed some mathematicians was the presumption of assuming that maybe the axiom of choice could fail, and that we should look into contrary assumptions. ↗

— Alonzo Church

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All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians. ↗

— Thelonious Monk

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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. ↗

— James C. Maxwell

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I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

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