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Eric Temple Bell föddes den February 7th 1883 och dog den 21 December 1960 - Scottish mathematician
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 Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

 Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

 Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality . . . creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

 If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.

 It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences

 It is the perennial youthfulness of mathematics itself which marks it off with a disconcerting immortality from the other sciences

 Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance

 The cowboys have a way of trussing up a steer or a pugnacious bronco which fixes the brute so that it can neither move nor think. This is the hog-tie, and it is what Euclid did to geometry.



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