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Theorems are not to mathematics what successful courses are to a meal. The nutritional analogy is misleading.

Alfred Pringsheim

A mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof, far from being the core of discovery, is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks. In Philip J. Davis and Reuben Hersh

Alfred Pringsheim

We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of "proving theorems." Is a writer's job mainly that of "writing sentences?"

Alfred Pringsheim

Alfred Pringsheim

Alfred Pringsheim

Born: September 2, 1850

Died: June 25, 1941 (aged 90)

Bio: Alfred Pringsheim was a German mathematician and patron of the arts. He was born in Ohlau, Prussian Silesia and died in Zürich, Switzerland.

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