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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Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

没有烦琐的工作,没有人能对纯数学研究是什么样子的,或能从纯数学研究中获得丰富的见解有任何具体的、全面的认识。

Injuries are part of the game, but sometimes we can avoid them by just practicing our techniques.

受伤是比赛的一部分,但有时我们可以通过练习我们的技术来避免受伤。

As the game gets bigger for the fans it gets bigger for the players.

随着比赛对球迷的影响越来越大,对球员的影响也越来越大。