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A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

  • -- Paul Erdos 厄多斯

数学家是把咖啡变成定理的工具。

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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.

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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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

许多数学家感到自己是理性思维悠久传统的骄傲继承者，从而获得了部分自尊;恐怕他们把自己的文化祖先理想化了。

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