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Quotes from Grundlagen der Analysis [Foundations of Analysis — Edmund Landau

1877–1938 Germany

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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)

Please don't read the preface for the teacher.

Grundlagen der Analysis [Foundations of Analysis (1930)

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)

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