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Historians often do not mention the truly important features of daily life, like games, concentrating instead on tedious political maneuvering.

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Formulas should be useful. If not they should be astounding, elegant, enlightening, simple, or have some other redeeming value.

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Authors who discover formulas should not rush into print. Even as in business and marriage, in mathematics not all that is true needs to be published.

Underwood Dudley

Underwood Dudley

Underwood Dudley

Born: January 6, 1937 (age 88)

Bio: Underwood Dudley is a mathematician, formerly of DePauw University, who has written a number of research works and textbooks but is best known for his popular writing.

Known for:

Mathematical cranks
The trisectors
A budget of trisections (1987)
A Guide to Elementary Number Theory

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