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Matt Mower • 1 card
That is why A Mathematician’s Apology is, if read with the textual attention it deserves, a book of haunting sadness. Yes, it is witty and sharp with intellectual high spirits: yes, the crystalline clarity and candour are still there: yes, it is the testament of a creative artist.
G. H. Hardy • A Mathematician's Apology (Canto Classics)
every even number greater than 2 is the sum of two primes.
Stephen Budiansky • Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
Buffett’s genius was largely a genius of character—of patience, discipline, and rationality.
Roger Lowenstein • Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
no three positive integers a, b, and c can satisfy the equation an + bn = cn for any integer n greater than 2.
Stephen Budiansky • Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
As I had plenty of opportunities to realize in the future, Hardy had no faith in intuitions or impressions, his own or anyone else’s. The only way to assess someone’s knowledge, in Hardy’s view, was to examine him.
G. H. Hardy • A Mathematician's Apology (Canto Classics)
Good work is not done by ‘humble’ men.