“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).
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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)
Grundlagen der Analysis [Foundations of Analysis] (1930) Preface for the Teacher, as quoted by Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights (2013)
“We mathematicians are all a little bit crazy.”
Wir Mathematiker sind alle ein bißchen meschugge. <br class="br">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)
Grundlagen der Analysis [Foundations of Analysis] (1930) Preface for the Student, as quoted by Eli Maor, Trigonometric Delights (2013)
