#theorem

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ↗

— Paul Erdos

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Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#conventional wisdom #counter #economists #like #often

I realized that anything to do with Fermat's Last Theorem generates too much interest. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. ↗

— George Boole

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I have found a very great number of exceedingly beautiful theorems. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

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The analysis of variance is not a mathematical theorem, but rather a convenient method of arranging the arithmetic. ↗

— Ronald Fisher

#arithmetic #arranging #convenient #mathematical #method

Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books. ↗

— G. H. Hardy

#men #old #old men #prove #should

One cannot really argue with a mathematical theorem. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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