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Gabriel Popkin • The Universe According to Frank Wilczek - John Templeton Foundation
He was the classical anti-narcissist. He could not endure having his photograph taken: so far as I know, there are only five snapshots in existence.
G. H. Hardy • A Mathematician's Apology (Canto Classics)
“Random-Restart Hill Climbing”—
Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths • Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult”
Andrew Kilpatrick • The Wit and Wisdom of Warren Buffett (OPV Short Reads Book 2)
The two are linked, but in mathematics they are particularly cyclically linked.
Eugenia Cheng • The Art of Logic
The case for my life, then, or for that of any one else who has been a mathematician in the same sense in which I have been one, is this: that I have added something to knowledge, and helped others to add more; and that these somethings have a value which differs in degree only, and not in kind, from that of the creations of the great mathematician
... See moreG. H. Hardy • A Mathematician's Apology (Canto Classics)
Improvement is easier than perfection, and as the Chinese say, the best is the enemy of the good.