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Galileo was no idiot. Only an idiot could believe that science requires martyrdom - that may be nece...

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The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its constru...

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The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of g...

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David Hilbert

Mathematician

Born: 1862-01-23

Died: 1943-02-14

David Hilbert (January 23, 1862 – February 14, 1943) was a German logician, mathematician, and mathematical physicist. He is recognized as one of the most influential and universal mathematicians of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hilbert discovered and developed a broad range of fundamental ideas in many areas, including invariant theory and the axiomatization of geometry, as well as the theory of Hilbert spaces, one of the foundations of functional analysis. Hilbert and his students also supplied much of the mathematics needed for quantum mechanics and general relativity.More