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Math is perfect (in principle), but mathematicians are not (because they are humans), hence the mathematics that (human) mathematicians do is influenced by the weltanschauung of the people around them.

— Doron Zeilberger Computerized Deconstruction. Appeared in Adv. Appl. Math. v. 31 (2003)

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Regardless of whether or not God exists, God has no place in mathematics, at least in my book.

Programming is much much harder than doing mathematics.

Many of the successes of `fancy' mathematics are due to sociological and linguistic reasons. They are really high-school-algebra arguments in disguise.

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Mathematics my foot! Algorithms are mathematics too, and often more interesting and definitely more useful.

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