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ITT: Badass mathematician quotes.

"A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas." - G.H. Hardy

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"Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not." - G.H. Hardy

"No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly, for good or ill, the least difference to the amenity of the world." - G.H. Hardy

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"Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce." - Benoit Mandelbrot

"Clouds are not spheres, mountains are not cones, coastlines are not circles, and bark is not smooth, nor does lightning travel in a straight line." - Benoit Mandelbrot

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"An equation for me has no meaning unless it expresses a thought of God." - Ramanujan

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"Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country." - David Hilbert

"Mathematics is the foundation of all exact knowledge of natural phenomena." - David Hilbert

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>>3392366
>God

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>> No.3392417

"...." - Grigori Perelman

>> No.3392428

word

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"I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem which this margin is too small to contain." - Pierre de Fermat

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"Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. One goes into the first room, and it's dark, completely dark. One stumbles around bumping into the furniture, and gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is, and finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch. You turn it on, and suddenly, it's all illuminated. You can see exactly where you were." - Andrew Wiles