Quotes Tagged With :theorem

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

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

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....

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

There are no proofs. There are only agreements

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

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

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

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