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Please forget everything that you have learned in school; for you haven't learned it.

Edmund Landau

My book is written, as befits such easy material, in merciless telegram style ("Axiom," "Definition," "Theorem," "Proof," occasionally "Preliminary Remark")... I hope I have written this book in such a way that a normal student can read it in two days. And then (since he already knows the formal rules from school) he may forget its contents.

Edmund Landau

Number theory is useful, since one can graduate with it.

Edmund Landau

I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.

Edmund Landau

Please forget whatever you've been studying at school; for you have not learned it.

Edmund Landau

Edmund Landau

Edmund Landau

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Born: February 14, 1877

Died: February 19, 1938 (aged 61)

Bio: Edmund Georg Hermann Landau was a German mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis.

Known for:

Foundations of analysis
Elementary number theory
Differential and Integral Calculus
Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie (1863)
Grundlagen der Analysis (1930)

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