Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to take over all the rest of mathematics. In one respect this last point is accurate.
The world is a very complicated place, as babies know. - David Mumford
The world is a very complicated place, as babies know.
- David Mumford
Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think. - David Mumford
Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think.
The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete. - David Mumford
The world is continuous, but the mind is discrete.
Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points. - David Mumford
Images of the world are Renormalization Group fixed points.
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that conv… - David Mumford
Art lives on the mental plane (the real painting is not the set of dry pigments on the canvas nor is a symphony the sequence of sound waves that conv…
My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation... We should be honest in telling these agencies we o… - David Mumford
My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation... We should be honest in telling these agencies we o…
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they… - David Mumford
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride that they…
The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating. - David Mumford
The extreme possibilities are the most illuminating.
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to… - David Mumford
Algebraic geometry seems to have acquired the reputation of being esoteric, exclusive, and very abstract, with adherents who are secretly plotting to…
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