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The Man Who Knew Infinity (1991)
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Mathematics... is mired in a language of symbols foreign to most of us, [it] explores regions of the infinitesimally small and the infinitely large that elude words, much less understanding. So specialized is mathematics today... that most mathematical papers appearing in most mathematics journals are indecipherable even to most mathematicians.
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Combinatorics, a sort of glorified dice-throwing.
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Mathematics is not best learned passively; you don't sop it up like a romance novel. You've got to go out to it, aggressive, and alert, like a chess master pursuing checkmate.
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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe
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May 28, 1946
(age 78)
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