There is great exhilaration in breaking one of these things. ... Ramanujan gives no hints, no proof of his formulas, so everything you do you feel is your own.[About verifying Ramanujan's equations in a newly found manuscript.] Votes: 6
In my view, using technology too soon is definitely detrimental to education. I have often used the analogy 'it's like wine-tasting for first-graders'. One can be both a strong advocate of first-graders and wine-tasting, but strongly opposed to wine-tasting for first-graders. Votes: 3
They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out. Votes: 3
It seems to me there's this grand mathematical world out there, and I am wandering through it and discovering fascinating phenomena that often totally suprise me. I do not think of mathemaatics as invented but rather discovered. Votes: 0
The manuscript looks chaotic, even by mathematics standards. Votes: 0
Whether drugs lead to illumination or degradation depends on the spirit in which one takes them Votes: 0