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Edmund Georg Hermann Landau

est un mathématicien allemand, auteur de 253 publications mathématiques, en grande partie sur la théorie des nombres. Wikipedia  

✵ 14. février 1877 – 19. février 1938
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“Number theory is useful, since one can graduate with it.”

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.”

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.”

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.”

Wir Mathematiker sind alle ein bißchen meschugge.
quoted by Paul Erdős https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCQwh9fsU7I&t=20m24s

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

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.”

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

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