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Quotes from Mathematics on a Distant Planet — Richard Hamming

1915–1998 United States

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Formal proofs, where there is deliberately no meaning, can convince only formalists, and of the results they themselves seem to deny any meaning. Is that to be the mathematics we are to use to understand the world we live in?

Mathematics on a Distant Planet (1998)

I know that the great Hilbert said, "We will not be driven out of the paradise Cantor has created for us," and I reply, "I see no reason for walking in!" Indeed, in time, as more and more people get used to computers, I am inclined to believe that we here on this Earth will decide that the computable numbers are enough.

Mathematics on a Distant Planet (1998)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Richard Hamming (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.