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A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts.


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The writing in mathematics text is not only laconic to a fault; it is cold, monotonous, dry, dull, and even ungrammatical... The books are not only printed by machines; they are written by machines.



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A elegantly executed proof is a poem in all but the form in which it is written.



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Actually, most mathematics courses do not teach reasoning of any kind. Students are so baffled by the material that they are obliged to memorize in order to pass examinations.



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Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.



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Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.



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There is no rigorous definition of rigor.



In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.

In brief, the whole world is the totality of mathematically expressible motions of objects in space and time, and the entire universe is a great, harmonious, and mathematically designed machine.



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Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.





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