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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.

  • -- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra 艾兹格·迪科斯彻

传统的数学家看到数学的优雅时，会承认并欣赏它。我建议更进一步，认为优雅是数学的一个基本要素:如果它笨拙，它就不是数学。

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Leadership is particularly necessary to ensure ready acceptance of the unfamiliar and that which is contrary to tradition.

领导是特别必要的，以确保随时接受不熟悉的和违反传统的东西。

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One can imagine that the ultimate mathematician is one who can see analogies between analogies.

可以想象，最终的数学家是一个能在类比之间看到类比的人。

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Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change.

数学家就像经理一样，他们需要的是无需改变的改进。

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Teaching is not a lost art. But the regard for it is a lost tradition.

教学不是一门消失的艺术。但对它的重视已成为一种失传的传统。

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