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Please forget everything that you have learned in school; for you haven't learned it.
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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.
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I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
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Please forget whatever you've been studying at school; for you have not learned it.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
February 14, 1877
Died:
February 19, 1938
(aged 61)
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