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Being a mathematician is a bit like being a manic depressive: you spend your life alternating between giddy elation and black despair.

Steven G. Krantz

A mathematician experiments, amasses information, makes a conjecture, finds out that it does not work, gets confused and then tries to recover. A good mathematician eventually does so — and proves a theorem.

Steven G. Krantz

Steven G. Krantz

Steven G. Krantz

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Born: February 3, 1951 (age 74)

Bio: Steven George Krantz is an American scholar, mathematician, and writer. He has authored numerous research papers and several books, and edited journals such as the Notices of the American Mathematical Society and The Journal of Geometric Analysis.

Known for:

How to teach mathematics (1991)
Calculus Demystified (2002)
Function theory of several complex variables (1982)

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