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Once you learn the concept of a differential equation, you see differential equations all over, no matter what you do.
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Running overtime is the one unforgivable error a lecturer can make. After fifty minutes (one microcentury as von Neumann used to say) everybody's attention will turn elsewhere.
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The advice we give others is the advice that we ourselves need.
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The apex of mathematical achievement occurs when two or more fields which were thought to be entirely unrelated turn out to be closely intertwined. Mathematicians have never decided whether they should feel excited or upset by such events.
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God created infinity, and man, unable to understand infinity, had to invent finite sets.
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Making mathematics accessible to the educated layman, while keeping high scientific standards, has always been considered a treacherous navigation between the Scylla of professional contempt and the Charybdis of public misunderstanding.
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Born:
April 27, 1932
Died:
April 18, 1999
(aged 66)
Bio:
Gian-Carlo Rota was an Italian-born American mathematician and philosopher.
Known for:
Indiscrete thoughts (1997)
Gian-Carlo Rota on combinatorics (1995)
Ordinary Differential Equations (1962)
Introduction to Geometric Probability (1997)
Finite operator calculus (1975)
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