Quotes Tagged With :theorem

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.....

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

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

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

Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and....

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

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

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