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No one will get very far or become a real mathematician without certain indispensable qualities. He must have hope, faith, and curiosity, and prime necessity is curiosity.

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What is mathematics? It has so many different aspects that the difficulties in trying to give a definition are similar to those encountered in trying to determine whether some living organisms are animal or vegetable.

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Louis J. Mordell

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Born: January 28, 1888
Died: March 12, 1972 (aged 84)
Bio: Louis Joel Mordell was an American-born British mathematician, known for pioneering research in number theory. He was born in Philadelphia, United States, in a Jewish family of Lithuanian extraction.
Known for:
  1. Diophantine equations (1969)
  2. Three Lectures on Fermat's Last Theorem (1921)
  3. Famous Problems, and Other Monographs

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