Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country.
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A mathematical theory is not to be considered complete until you have made it so clear that you can explain it to the first man whom you meet on the street.David Hilbert
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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?
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The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man.
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If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology.
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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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