Edmund Landau: Quotes about reading

Edmund Landau was German Jewish mathematician. Explore interesting quotes on reading.
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“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)

School , Mathematics , Thinking , Reading

“My book is written, as befits such easy material, in merciless telegram style ("Axiom," "Definition," "Theorem," "Proof," occasionally "Preliminary Remark")… I hope I have written this book in such a way that a normal student can read it in two days. And then (since he already knows the formal rules from school) he may forget its contents.”

Edmund Landau

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

Books , School , Hope , Way

“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)

Teachers , Reading