#mathematician quotes

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The source of all great mathematics is the special case, the concrete example. It is frequent in mathematics that every instance of a concept of seemingly generality is, in essence, the same as a small and concrete special case.

Paul Halmos

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‘Obvious’ is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

Eric Temple Bell

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Every good mathematician is at least half a philosopher, and every good philosopher is at least half a mathematician.

Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege

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The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty.

Bertrand Russell

[theydolikethewayshesaysham]

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Pascal

[thequantumatom]

In 1954, United States authorities ruled that if Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős wished to leave the states to attend a mathematics conference in Amsterdam that year, he would subsequently be denied a re-entry permit.  His response above, image taken from the movie N is a Number.