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I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

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No one can think a thought for me in the way that no one can don my hat for me.

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The mathematician is an inventor, not a discoverer.

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A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

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Nothing, in logic, is accidental.

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A mathematical proof must be perspicuous.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Born: April 26, 1889
Died: April 29, 1951 (aged 62)
Bio: Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.
Known for:
  1. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921)
  2. Philosophical Investigations
  3. Blue and Brown Books
  4. On Certainty
  5. Culture and Value
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