“Good, he did not have enough imagination to become a mathematician.”

— David Hilbert

Upon hearing that one of his students had dropped out to study poetry, as quoted in [http://books.google.com/?id=nnpChqstvg0C&pg=PA151 The Universal Book of Mathematics (2004) by David J. Darling, p. 151

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German prominent mathematician 1862–1943

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