It is my experience that proofs involving matrices can be shortened by 50% if one throws the matrices out.

- Emil Artin

I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter after chapter of a given book. The live…

- Emil Artin

This skipping is another important point. It should be done whenever a proof seems too hard or whenever a theorem or a whole paragraph does not appea…

- Emil Artin