It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool.
[Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department… - Julian Coolidge
[Before the time of Benjamin Peirce it never occurred to anyone that mathematical research] was one of the things for which a mathematical department…
- Julian Coolidge
The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves - Julian Coolidge
The present author confesses that, to him, geometry is nothing at all, if not a branch of art ... A Treatise on Algebraic Plane Curves
It is true that a man who does this is a fool. I have only proved that a man who does anything else is an even bigger fool. - Julian Coolidge
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The pr… - Julian Coolidge
Every writer must reconcile, as best he may, the conflicting claims of consistency and variety, of rigour in detail and elegance in the whole. The pr…
But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are… - Julian Coolidge
But in the present century, thanks in good part to the influence of Hilbert, we have come to see that the unproved postulates with which we start are…
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