Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes.
This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably du… - Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably du…
- Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial. - Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
But anything that can be called "rigor" is lost exactly where the things become interesting and non trivial.
Understanding what and why did not work may be more instructive than celebrating our successes. - Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's, be it… - Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's, be it…
There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE. - Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
There is no significant difference between human activities and those by amoebas and even bacteria, well, on the GRAND SCALE.
A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other units, "universal", while su… - Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
A mathematician would hardly call a correspondence between the set of 64 triples of four units and a set of twenty other units, "universal", while su…
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