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


Grundlagen der Analysis [Foundations of Analysis] (1930) Preface for the Student, as quoted by Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights (2013)

Edmund Landau Quotes

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

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

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

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