Robert Langlands cytaty

Robert Phelan Langlands – kanadyjski matematyk pracujący w Stanach Zjednoczonych.

✵ 6. Październik 1936

Robert Langlands Fotografia

Author - Dr. Jeff Mozzochi (passed copyright for the photo to owner - professor Robert Phelan Langlands), Scanned from photo print and sent by secretary of professor Robert Phelan Langlands (Institute of Applied Science, Princeton NJ, USA) from his own archive, with OTRS permission from him and Dr. Jeff Mozzochi (author of the photo). Cropped and rotated by me for the best quality. / CC-BY-SA-3.0

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Robert Langlands: Cytaty po angielsku

“What I have achieved has been largely a matter of chance. Many problems I thought about at length with no success. With other problems, there was the inspiration—indeed, some that astound me today. Certainly the best times were when I was alone with mathematics, free of ambition and of pretense, and indifferent to the world.”

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Robert Langlands

Źródło: "Mathematical retrospections," 2013, p. 142

“Although there are at present many occupations that require a good deal of skill and training in advanced mathematics, mathematics itself is still often regarded as a curious profession demanding singular talents and a singular personality.”

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Robert Langlands

Źródło: "Mathematical retrospections," 2013, p. 142

“Mathematical maturity is anyhow an uncertain concept, for the mind’s natural competence seems to change with age, its purview variable.”

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Robert Langlands

Źródło: "Mathematical retrospections," 2013, p. 142