“We mathema­ticians are all a little bit crazy.”

—  Edmund Landau

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

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Wir Mathematiker sind alle ein bißchen meschugge.

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