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If we do run into a paradox, we can probably save the structure of mathematics by patching it.
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Like the great temples of some religions, mathematics may be viewed only from the outside by those uninitiated into its mysteries.
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Often enough mathematicians have been caught off base with some pathological wrinkle in some funny function or something so, you know, you do have to do the proof, but still in the end that much more important function of a proof in my view is to figure out why it works.
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Proofs really aren't there to convince you that something is true — they're there to show why it is true.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Andrew M. Gleason
Born:
November 4, 1921
Died:
October 17, 2008
(aged 86)
Known for:
Hughes-Hallett Calculus Update (2003)
Fundamentals of abstract analysis (1966)
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