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In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you insight, the ones that lead you in interesting directions, the ones that connect with lots of other interesting questions -the ones with beautiful answers.

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So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an experimental mathematics direction, in a quasi-empirical direction. The reason why mathematicians are changing their working habits is the computer. I think that this is an excellent joke!

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Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!

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I think logicians hate my work, they detest it! And I'm like pornography, I'm sort of an unmentionable subject in the world of logic, because my results are so disgusting!

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As Hamlet tells his friend, There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well then, we must try harder to dream!

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Gregory Chaitin

Gregory Chaitin

Born: November 15, 1947 (age 77)
Bio: Gregory John Chaitin is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist.
Known for:
  1. Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega (2005)
  2. Proving Darwin: Making Biology Mathematical (2012)
  3. The limits of mathematics (1994)
  4. Exploring Randomness (2001)
  5. The unknowable (1999)

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