Edmund Landau Quotes

Edmund Georg Hermann Landau was a German mathematician who worked in the fields of number theory and complex analysis. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. February 1877 – 19. February 1938
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Famous Edmund Landau Quotes

“Number theory is useful, since one can graduate with it.”

Edmund Landau

Die Zahlentheorie ist nützlich, weil man mit ihr promovieren kann.
Foreword to Vorlesungen über Zahlentheorie (Lectures on Number Theory) (1927).

“I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.”

Edmund Landau

Grundlagen der Analysis [Foundations of Analysis] (1930) Preface for the Student, as quoted by Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights (2013)

“Please forget everything that you have learned in school; for you haven't learned it.”

Edmund Landau

Foundations of Analysis (1960) as quoted by Eli Maor, The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-year History (2007)

“We mathema­ticians are all a little bit crazy.”

Edmund Landau

Wir Mathematiker sind alle ein bißchen meschugge. <br class="br">quoted by Paul Erdős https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCQwh9fsU7I&amp;t=20m24s

“Please don't read the preface for the teacher.”

Edmund Landau

Grundlagen der Analysis [Foundations of Analysis] (1930) Preface for the Student, as quoted by Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights (2013)

“The multiplication table will not occur in this book, not even the theorem,2 \cdot 2 = 4,but I would recommend, as an exercise, that you define2 = 1 + 1,
4 = (((1 + 1) + 1) + 1)and then prove the theorem.”

Edmund Landau

Grundlagen der Analysis [Foundations of Analysis] (1930) Preface for the Student, as quoted by Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights (2013)

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