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Quotes from The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics — Richard Hamming

1915–1998 United States

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The idea that theorems follow from the postulates does not correspond to simple observation.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (1980)

Euclid's postulates came from the Pythagorean theorem, not the other way around.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (1980)

The Postulates of Mathematics Were Not on the Stone Tablets that Moses Brought Down from Mt. Sinai.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics (1980)

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