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Aus dem Paradies, das Cantor uns geschaffen, soll uns niemand vertreiben können. --David Hilbert
(No one shall expel us from the Paradise that Cantor has created.)

Cita (IX)

You should call it entropy, for two reasons. In the first place your uncertainty function has been used in statistical mechanics under that name, so it already has a name. In the second place, and more important, no one really knows what entropy really is, so in a debate you will always have the advantage. --John Von Neumann (a Claude Shannon)

Cita (VIII)

Mathematics consists of proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way. --George Pólya

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A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there. --Charles Darwin

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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. --John von Neumann (a Felix T. Smith)

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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false. --Carl Friedrich Gauss

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If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? --David Hilbert