If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

  • -- Eric Temple Bell 埃里克·坦普尔·贝尔

如果真的如希尔伯特所言,数学是一场毫无意义的游戏,在纸上做着毫无意义的标记,那么我们唯一可以参考的数学经验就是在纸上做标记。

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You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.

你从来没有机会和一些伟大的球员一起打球,但是和他们在一起,和他们在同一个级别,是一种很棒的感觉,感觉所有最好的球员都在打比赛。

Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

从整体上看,纯数学明显比应用数学更有用。因为最重要的是技术,而数学技术主要是通过纯数学来教授的。

Gotham Games called me, and I could not be more thrilled. I've been waiting to be in a video game forever, so when they called there was no hesitation.

高谭游戏公司打电话给我,我非常激动。我一直在等着能永远玩电子游戏,所以当他们打来电话时,我毫不犹豫。

A pure mathematical series would be one in which each term is derived from the preceding term by a rule.

一个纯数学级数应该是一个每一项都由前一项根据规则推导出来的级数。