Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.
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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
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The further a mathematical theory is developed, the more harmoniously and uniformly does its construction proceed, and unsuspected relations are disclosed between hitherto separated branches of the science.
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I have tried to avoid long numerical computations, thereby following Riemann's postulate that proofs should be given through ideas and not voluminous computations.
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Before beginning I should put in three years of intensive study, and I haven't that much time to squander on a probable failure. On why he didn't try to solve Fermat's last theorem.
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No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man; no other idea has so fruitfully stimulated his intellect; yet no other concept stands in greater need of clarification than that of the infinite.
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