Quotes Tagged With :theorem

A Man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of....

This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever....

Some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a....

I carried this problem around in my head basically the whole time. I would wake up with it first thing....

One may characterize physics as the doctrine of the repeatable, be it a succession in time or the co-existence....

It may be appropriate to quote a statement of Poincare, who said (partly in jest no doubt) that there....

There are no proofs. There are only agreements

The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one....

There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class.....