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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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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Andrew M. Gleason

Andrew M. Gleason

Born: November 4, 1921
Died: October 17, 2008 (aged 86)
Known for:
  1. Hughes-Hallett Calculus Update (2003)
  2. Fundamentals of abstract analysis (1966)

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