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Beauty is very integrated with rarity.... Beauty is connected so much with innovation and priority.... [In mathematics], it has to be something special to make it beautiful. If it's just ordinary, it's not beautiful.

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Stephen Smale

Stephen Smale

Born: July 15, 1930 (age 95)
Bio: Stephen Smale is an American mathematician from Flint, Michigan. His research concerns topology, dynamical systems and mathematical economics.
Known for:
  1. The Collected Papers of Stephen Smale (2000)
  2. Complexity and Real Computation (1998)
  3. The mathematics of time (1980)

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