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A mathematician, then, will be defined in what follows as someone who has published the proof of at least one non-trivial theorem.
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The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.
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In the flowering of a mathematical talent social environment has an important part to play.
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We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.
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It has been said that the art of geometry is to reason well from false diagrams.
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This difficulty lead very gradually to the recognition of the need for a shorthand to make the sequence of operations easily comprehensible: here we have the problem of notation, which crops up again after every introduction of new objects, and which will probably never cease to torment mathematicians.
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Engineers, always looking for optimal values for the measures of magnitudes which interest them, think of mathematicians as custodians of a fund of formulae, to be supplied to them on demand.
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On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes we rush to hide behind formalism and say: "Mathematics is just a combination of meaningless symbols..."
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Jean Dieudonné
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Born:
July 1, 1906
Died:
November 29, 1992
(aged 86)
Bio:
Jean Alexandre Eugène Dieudonné was a French mathematician, notable for research in abstract algebra and functional analysis.
Known for:
Treatise on Analysis (1988)
Éléments de géométrie algébrique (1960)
Mathematics-- the music of reason (1992)
History of Functional Analysis (1983)
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