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One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that mathematical problems have little connection with ...more

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There was a seminar for advanced students in Zürich that I was teaching and von Neumann was in the class. I came to a certain theorem, and I said it i...more

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I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I studied languages and literature for two years. Af...more

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Quite often, when an idea that could be helpful presents itself, we do not appreciate it, for it is so inconspicuous. The expert has, perhaps, no more...more

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The first rule of discovery is to have brains and good luck. The second rule of discovery is to sit tight and wait till you get a bright idea.

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A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it chal...more

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Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for som...more

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The elegance of a mathematical theorem is directly proportional to the number of independent ideas one can see in the theorem and inversely proportion...more