Content tagged mathematician

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Mathematician fills in blank spot in Escher print. (original, filled in.) gulfstream/878

Auction for Erdös number 5 up to $152.50! (My father-the-mathematician emailed: “This is weird, because there are a couple of thousand … gulfstream/1422

Audio of Malcolm Gladwell’s Feb 21st talk on a possible prodigies/late bloomers dichotomy. (This reminds me: in A Mathematician’s Apology, G.H. Hardy … gulfstream/2007

Journalists from The New Yorker, thoughtful individuals that they are, attempt to arrange a meeting with the famously reclusive mathematician Grigory Perelman: … gulfstream/2150

Quotes Collected

A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because theirs are made with … hardy/7

No mathematician should ever allow himself to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. To take a simple illustration … hardy/4

At his best, he said, he was for a short time the fifth best pure mathematician in the world. -- from the Forward, by C.P. Snow hardy/1