Combinatorics
Quotes & Thinkers in Combinatorics
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🇺🇸Donald Knuth
Science
b. 1938
"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
28 quotes
🇺🇸Terence Tao
Mathematics
b. 1975
2 quotes
🇮🇳Srinivasa Ramanujan
Mathematics
1887–1920
"| "Film to celebrate mathematics genius" by Soutik Biswas, BBC News"
6 quotes
🇺🇸Doron Zeilberger
Mathematics
b. 1950
"The best way to learn a topic is by teaching it. Similarly the best way to understand a new proof is by writing an expository article about it."
10 quotes
🇬🇧Frank P. Ramsey
Mathematics
1903–1930
"lthough my attempted reconstruction of the view of Whitehead and Russell overcomes, I think, many of the difficulties, it is impossible to regard it as altogether satisfactory."
8 quotes
🇺🇸George Pólya
Mathematics
1887–1985
"For mathematics education and the world of problem solving it marked a line of demarcation between two eras, problem solving before and after Polya."
31 quotes
James Joseph Sylvester
Mathematics
1814–1897
"Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred."
8 quotes
🇭🇺Paul Erdős
Mathematics
1913–1996
"Some French socialist said that private property was theft … I say that private property is a nuisance."
15 quotes
🇺🇸Eric Temple Bell
Mathematics
1883–1960
"Abstractness, sometimes hurled as a reproach at mathematics, is its chief glory and its surest title to practical usefulness. It is also the source of such beauty as may spring from mathematics."
14 quotes